France 1772-A liard

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Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 74760
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from the Mountain Groan Collection
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The first specimen was lot 74760 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $264. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRANCE. Liard, 1772-A. Paris Mint. Louis XV. PCGS MS-63 Brown. No dot variety; 1st semester. From the Richard August Collection. Ex: Byron F. Johnson, Jr. Collection (Bowers and Merena, Inc. - 1/989) Lot # 3189." The specimen shown is a liard à la vieille tête minted at Paris 1768-72 at the end of the reign of Louis XV. Eleven other mints struck this type. Its face value was 3 deniers, ¼ sol or 1/480 of a silver écu. The type is common in low grade (the SCWC values it at $4 in VG) but well made specimens are scarce.

Recorded mintage: unknown but a common date[2].

Specification: copper, 3.06 g, 21 mm diameter, plain edge, designed by Charles Norbert Roettiers.

Catalog reference: Dr/4 № 873, Dr/2 № 581, KM-543.1; Gad-272.

Sources:

  • Duplessy, Jean, Les Monnaies Françaises Royales de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI (987-1793), Tome II, 2e édition, Paris: Maison Platt, 1999.
  • [2]Droulers, Frédéric, Répertoire General des Monnaies de Louis XIII à Louis XVI (1610-1792), 4e édition. Paris: AFPN, 2009.
  • Gadoury, Victor, Monnaies Royales Françaises, 1610-1792, 5me éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 2018.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection and Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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