France 1775-W louis d'or

Stack's Bowers October 2020 Collectors Choice sale, lot 71425

This specimen was lot 71425 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2020), where it sold for $1,800. The catalog description^[1] noted, "FRANCE. Louis d'Or, 1775-W. Lille Mint. Louis XVI. NGC AU-55. AGW: 0.2405 oz. A presentable, barely circulated coin of the "au buste habillé" (with draped bust) type used at the beginning of the king's reign. Some light marks on the cheek are due to defects in the original planchet, and an area of weak strike on the reverse center exhibits some die adjustment marks." The louis of Louis XVI continued to be struck to the standard of 1726 but the price of gold had risen, making the type uneconomical to issue. In 1785, Calonne lowered the weight to 7.65 grams and recoined all the stocks in government hands, rendering this earlier type very rare.

Recorded mintage: 90,840, common date of a scarce type.

Specification: 8.15 g, 0.917 fine gold, reeded edge, 24 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Fr-471; KM-567.15, Gadoury 359, Dr/4 № 879, Dr/2 № 602.

Source:

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.
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]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The October 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.

Links to:

France 1775-W louis d'or

Navigation menu

Search