France (1423)-Paris salut d'or Fr-301
This specimen was lot 3022 in Künker sale 294 (Osnabrück, Germany, July 2017), where it sold for €1,400 (about US$1,887 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"FRANKREICH, KÖNIGREICH, Henri VI d'Angleterre, 1422-1453. Salut d'or o. J. (1423), 2. Emission, Paris. GOLD. Fast vorzüglich. (kingdom of France, Henry VI of England, 1422-53, undated salut d'or, second emission, Paris mint. About extremely fine.)"
This coin was issued before the modern system of mintmarks was introduced by Francis I in 1540. Prior to that date, mints used various secret marks to identify and date their product. This undated coin shows a dot under the R of HENRICVS and is thereby noted as being produced by the Paris mint (later mintmark "A") sometime around 1423. Paris was occupied by the English 1422-36. Duplessy notes that the contemporary face value was 22 sols, 6 deniers tournois and lists thirteen mints.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.49 g, 1.000 fine gold, this specimen 3.46 g.
Catalog reference: Fr-301; Dupl-443a; Ciani-598.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Katalog 294: Goldprägungen | Deutsche Münzen ab 1871 | Russische Münzen und Medaillen, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2017.
- Duplessy, Jean, Les Monnaies Françaises Royales de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI (987-1793), Tome I, 2e édition, Paris: Maison Platt, 1999.
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- return to French royal coinage (to 1793)