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1 Ecu Kingdom of France (843-1791) Gold Charles IX of France (1550 -1574)

Denomination: 1 Ecu
Metal: Gold
Issue year(s): 1568
Catalog reference: Fr-378 (12) Duplessy-1057 (6)

1567, Royal France, Charles IX. Scarce Gold Ecu Coin.



Mint Year: 1567 Mintage: 80300 pcs. Mint Place: Rouen (B) Reference: Friedberg 378, Duplessy 1057. Denomination: Gold Ecu (Écu d’or au soleil, 1st type) Diameter: 23mm Material: Gold! Weight: 3.31gm


Obverse: Sun above crowned coat-of-arms with three lis inside (royal french arms). Legend: CAROLVS. VIIII. D. G. FRANCORON. REX. ("Charles IX, by the grace of God, king of the French.") Reverse: Floriated cross with mint initial (B) in the middle. Legend: + CHRIST. REGNAT. VINCIT. ET. IMP ("Christ reigns and commands!") * 1567.


Charles IX (27 June 1550 – 30 May 1574) born Charles-Maximilien, was King of France, ruling from 1560 until his death. He is best known as king at the time of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.


After the death of his elder brother, François II, in 1560, he inherited the throne and was crowned King of France in 1560 in the cathedral at Reims. The politics of that era were greatly influenced by his mother, Catherine de' Medici, who was regent for the ten-year-old Charles, and by the power of the opposing religious faction leaders; the Protestant-leaning House of Bourbon and the ultra-Catholic House of Guise.


The first of the French Wars of Religion broke out in 1562–63 when armed Protestant troops seized many French cities following an attack on Protestant worshippers by retainers of the Duke of Guise. After a four-year period of peace, an attempt by Huguenot armies at Meaux to capture and control the king led to the Second War of Religion from 1567 to 1568. A third war raged chiefly in south-western France from 1568 to 1570 with foreign intervention.


On 26 November 1570 Charles married Elisabeth of Austria. They had one daughter, Marie-Elisabeth (27 October 1572 – 9 April 1578). Charles IX also had an illegitimate son, the duc d’Angoulême, with his mistress, Marie Touchet.


In 1572, Charles IX witnessed the massacre of thousands of Huguenots (Protestants) in and around Paris in what became known as the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre.


Charles IX did not long survive the Massacre. He had always been fragile, both emotionally and physically: emotionally, his moods now swung from coarse boasting about the extremity of the Massacre, to claims that the screams of the murdered Huguenots kept ringing in his ears. Frantically he blamed his mother: “Who but you is the cause of all of this? God's blood, you are the cause of it all!” The Queen-mother responded by declaring she had a lunatic for a son.


Physically, Charles had never been strong, tending towards tuberculosis.


The strain following the Massacres weakened his body to the point where, by spring of 1574, the hoarse coughing turned bloody and the hemorrhages grew more violent. He became bedridden and delusional,


On his last day, 30 May 1574, at the Château de Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, Charles called for Henry of Navarre, embraced him, and said, "Brother, you are losing a good friend. Had I believed all that I was told, you would not be alive. But I always loved you... I trust you alone to look after my wife and daughter. Pray God for me. Farewell."


Charles was not yet twenty-four years old. The crown of France now passed to his brother, Henry III.


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Posted by:  anonymous  2023-10-30 1567-F, France, Charles IX. Early-Dated Gold Ecu Coin. Angers! (3.37gm) NGC UNC+ Mint Year: 1567 Mint Place: Angers (F) Denomination: Gold Ecu (Écu d'or au soleil) Reference: Friedberg 378, Duplessy 1057. R! Condition: Certified and graded by NGC as UNC (Details: Cleaned!) D ...
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Posted by:  anonymous  2016-04-10 1567, Royal France, Charles IX. Scarce Gold Ecu Coin. Rouen. Early Dated Coin! Mint Year: 1567 Mintage: 80300 pcs. Mint Place: Rouen (B) Reference: Friedberg 378, Duplessy 1057. R! Denomination: Gold Ecu (Écu d'or au soleil, 1st type) Condition: Struck on an uneven (not fu ...
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Posted by:  anonymous  2015-12-14Ausländische Münzen und Medaillen Frankreich Karl IX. 1560-1574. Ecu d'or au soleil 1566 M, Toulouse. Duplessy 1057, Friedberg 378. GOLD. Sehr schön
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Posted by:  anonymous  2015-09-02FRANKREICH Charles IX. 1560-1574. Ecu d'or au soleil 1566, Rouen. 3.34 g. Duplessy 1057. Fr. 378. Sehr schön-vorzüglich.
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Posted by:  anonymous  2015-09-01FRANKREICH Charles IX. 1560-1574. Ecu d'or au soleil 1564, Bordeaux. 3.39 g. Duplessy 1057. Fr. 378. Kl. Rdf. Sehr schön-vorzüglich
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Posted by:  anonymous  2015-11-17Frankreich, Karl IX. Ecu d'or au soleil 1565 A. Duplessy 1057, Friedberg 378. GOLD. Vorzüglich
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