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Dardenna Ste Dévote - Antoine I
| Issuer | Monaco |
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| Year | 1720 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse lettering | ANT. I. D.G. PRIN. MONOECI D.8. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Antoine I ruled Monaco under French suzerainty at a time when the principality's coinage was barely distinguishable in function from emergency local currency. The Dardenna — a Monaco-specific denomination with no direct equivalent in the French royal system — was struck to address chronic small-change shortages that plagued the principality throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Antoine's issues in copper were produced in limited quantities and circulated hard within a tiny territory, which is precisely why survivors in any presentable condition are genuinely difficult to place.