France 1791-Pau 15 sols

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Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 71096
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This specimen was lot 71096 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $125. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRANCE. Constitution. 15 Sols, 1791/Year 3. Pau Mint; mm: Cow. Louis XVI. PCGS Genuine--Scratch, AU Details. Second semester. A more difficult example, this essentially unhandled specimen does exhibit a noted scratch on the reverse and possesses a minor planchet flaw, but otherwise remains charming and elegant. From the Richard Margolis Collection (acquired from George Sobin on 3 October 1975 for $212.50)." This specimen is a fifteen sols struck at the Pau mint, which closed in 1793. 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, Toulouse, Bayonne, Paris, Limoges, Lille, Nantes and other mints.

Recorded mintage: 24,014, a scarce date.

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

Catalog reference: KM-604.15; 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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