France 1792-I 15 sols

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from the Mountain Groan Collection
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This specimen is a billon fifteen sols struck at the Limoges mint in 1791. It is common. Its face value was one-eighth of an écu. The type was struck in France 1791-93 and is known from Paris, Metz, Bordeaux, Bayonne, Marseilles, Nantes, Lille and other mints.

Recorded mintage: 4,000,000.

Specification: 5 g, 0.666 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM 604.5, Gad-36.

Source:

  • Ciani, Louis, Les Monnaies Royales Françaises de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI, avec indication de leur valuer actuelle, Paris, 1926 (reprinted in Barcelona, 1965).
  • 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.
  • Guilloteau, Victor, Monnaies Françaises, Colonies 1670-1942 et Metropole 1774-1942, Versailles, 1942.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.

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