France 1760-R 1/10 ecu
This specimen was lot 1309 in Stephen Album sale 27 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2017), where it sold for $94. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRANCE: Louis XV, 1715-1774, AR 12 sols, Orléans, 1760-R. Date unlisted for Orléans in KM, but listed as scarce date by Gadoury, VF, R." This coin, called a 1/10 écu au bandeau, was the French equivalent of a dime. In the coinage system of the ancien régime, the 1/10 écu = 12 sols. The type was struck 1740-71 and is recorded for the Orléans mint ("R") for 1740-41, 1756, 1760, 1762-63, 1766-67. This issue is priced[2] as very scarce.
Recorded mintage: 8,300.
Specification: 2.95 g, 0.917 fine silver, 22 mm diameter, this specimen 2.88 g.
Catalog reference: Dr/4 № 850, Dr/2 № 587, KM-511.18. Gad-292.
- [2]Droulers, Frédéric, Répertoire General des Monnaies de Louis XIII à Louis XVI (1610-1792), 4e édition. Paris: AFPN, 2009.
- Duplessy, Jean, Les Monnaies Françaises Royales de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI (987-1793), Tome II, 2e édition, Paris: Maison Platt, 1999.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Gadoury, Victor, Monnaies Royales Françaises, 1610-1792, 5me éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 2018.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 27, featuring the Dr. Paul Stevens Collection of Indian Coins, Part VI, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2016.
Link to:
- 1760-R demi-écu au bandeau
- 1760-A vingtième d'écu au bandeau
- 1760-W demi-écu au bandeau
- 1760-C écu au bandeau
- 1760-D écu au bandeau
- 1760-P écu au bandeau
- 1760 écu au bandeau du Béarn
- 1760-& louis d'or au bandeau
- 1760-BB double louis d'or au bandeau
- 1760-9 double louis d'or au bandeau
- 1760 double louis d'or au bandeau du Béarn
- 1761-A dixième d'écu au bandeau
- Coins and currency dated 1760
- return to coins of French royal coinage (to 1793)