France (1498-1507) ecu d'or Fr-330

from the Stack's Bowers 2018 NYINC sale, lot 20174

southeast France at the end of the Hundred Years War

This specimen was lot 20174 in Stack's Bowers 2018 NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it did not sell. The catalog description^[1] noted, "FRANCE. Ecu d'Or, ND (1498). Romans Mint. Louis XII (1498-1515). PCGS AU-58. "écu d'or au soleil du Dauphiné", Romans mint (dots under 2nd and 3rd letters of LVDOVICVS). Full legends on both sides, lustrous and attractive." This coin had a face value of 36 sols and 3 deniers tournois. It was struck in the province of Dauphiné, north of Provence, until it was superseded by the écu d'or au porc-épic (Dupl-659) in 1507.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 3.49 g, .963 fine gold.

Catalog reference: Fr-330; Dupl-654; Ci-917.

Source:

• Duplessy, Jean, Les Monnaies Françaises Royales de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI (987-1793), Tome I, 2e édition, Paris: Maison Platt, 1999.
• 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]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio, John Kraljevich and Cris Chatigny, The January 2018 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.

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• (1498-1515) denier tournois
• (1498) blanc de Bretagne
• (1498) grand blanc à la couronne
• (1498-1515) douzain au porc-épic de Bretagne
• (1498-1515) blanc de Provence
• (1498) demi-écu d'or au soleil, Toulouse mint
• (1498) écu d'or au soleil, Lyon mint
• (1498-1515) écu d'or au soleil de Bretagne, Rennes mint
• (1498-1507)-T écu d'or au soleil de Provence
• (1507) douzain au porc-épic
• (1507-15) écu d'or au porc-épic
• (1514-15) écu d'or au porc-épic de Bretagne
• Coins and currency dated 1498
• return to French royal coinage (to 1793)