Book Title: Ordonnances et edicts royaux de France depuis le Roy S. Loys IX. en l'an 1226, iusques au Roy Charles neusieme à present regnant 1565. : Le tout assemblé en tieres, & rubriques à la façon des pandectes du droit Romain, auec annotations necessaires pour l'intelligence des lieux les plus difficiles / par Pierre Rebuffi, docteur en droict, & aduocat en Parlement ; on y a depuis adiosté plusieurs arrests donnez es Cours souueraines, fondez sur la teneur des ordannances : auec deux tables, l'une des rubriques, l'autre des principales matieres qui y sont contenues

Author: Rebuffi, Pierre, 1487-1557, ed

Image Title: French Ordinances on the Carolus Coin

Description: This page lists the value of specific coins according to their weight, such that, for example, an ounce of the first pictured coin, a carolus minted in and containing the arms of Besançon, is worth twenty sols per ounce. Nearly all the coins with images on this page are called carolus, probably after the Latin name of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (r. 1519-1556), whose portrait appears on the coins in the left column. An exception, though, is the second coin which instead features the portrait of Philip II of Spain (r. 1556-1598), who appears here as Philip VII, Count of Burgundy; the arms of the County of Burgundy appear on the reverse. The final coin pictured features Charles V opposite the same arms.

The right column contains three carolus coins of Geneva, which hold slightly different values, but nearly identical designs. On each, Geneva's arms appear opposite against a square cross circumscribed by the city motto POST TENEBRAS LVX ("After darkness, light"). The final imaged listing features a carolus of Lorraine; the right coin face features the name of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine and Bar (r. 1508-1544), and the arms of these two duchies appear on the same side.

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