France 1791-M 15 sols

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Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 71093
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This specimen was lot 71093 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $85. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRANCE. Constitution. 15 Sols, 1791-M/Year 3. Toulouse Mint. Louis XVI. PCGS Genuine--Environmental Damage, AU Details. Largely without any evidence of circulation, this enchanting and fairly SCARCE minor does exhibit some minor environmental issues, accounting for the designation. From the Richard Margolis Collection (acquired from George Sobin on 3 October 1975 for $85)." This specimen is a fifteen sols struck at the Toulouse mint in 1791. Its face value was one-eighth of an écu altho it probably traded for less, being debased. The type was struck 1791-93 and is known from Marseille, Metz, Bordeaux, Bayonne, Paris, Limoges, Lille, Nantes and other mints.

Recorded mintage: 193,090, a better date.

Specification: 5 g, 0.666 fine silver, 23 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-604.8; Gad-36.

Source:

  • Duplessy, Jean, Les Monnaies Françaises Royales de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI (987-1793), Tome II, 2e édition, Paris: Maison Platt, 1999.
  • Gadoury, Victor, Monnaies Françaises, 1789-2019, 24me éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 2019.
  • 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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