France 1760-P ecu

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This specimen of the écu au bandeau is from the Dijon mint. Dijon was another of the innumerable backwoods mints whose products are usually very rare when encountered but for some freak of fate this date is common.

Recorded mintage: 132,385 (better than common but not rare).

Specification:

• Obverse: LUD.XV.D.G.FR ET NAV. REX. (for Pau, NA.RE. BD), king’s head left, hair tied with a ribbon;
• reverse: SIT NOMEN DOMINI BENEDICTUM (date), oval shield of France, crowned, between two olive branches tied with ribbon, mintmark below; edge lettered DOMINE SALVUM FAC REGEM.
• composition: silver, 11 deniers (.917 fine), 8.3 pieces to the mark (29.488 g), face value 6 livres, 39 mm diameter. Engraved by Joseph-Charles Röettiers.

Catalog reference: Dr/4 no. 820, Dr/2 no. 584, KM 512.16, Dav-1331.

Sources:

• ^[2]Alhéritière, Edouard, and Ludovic Deswelle, "Les écus de Louis XV de bandeau: point de situation," Numismatique et Change, No. 349 [Mai 2004], pp. 61-63.
• ^[3]Clairand, Armand, Monnaies de Louis XV, Le temps de la Stabilité Monetaire, 1726-1774, Paris: Maison Platt, 1996.
• 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.
• Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1964.

Link to:

• 1759-R écu
• 1760-R dixième d'écu au bandeau
• 1760-R demi-écu au bandeau
• 1760-C écu au bandeau
• 1760-Pau écu au bandeau
• 1761-A écu
• Coins and currency dated 1760
• return to French royal coinage (to 1793)