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Revision as of 08:13, 27 September 2024
This specimen was lot 897 in Jean Elsen sale 122 (Brussels, September 2014), where it sold for €160 (about US$245 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"FRANCE, Convention (1792-1795), AR écu constitutionnel, 1793 M, an 5, Toulouse. Droit: Tête nue à gauche, les cheveux noués par un ruban. Revers: Génie inscrivant la constitution sur une table. A gauche, un faisceau. A droite, un coq. Beau à Très Beau. (kingdom of France, Louis XVI (1774-93), silver constitutional écu of 1793, Toulouse mint.)"
This specimen is a "constitutional écu" struck at the Toulouse mint, one of a type struck there 1792-93, prior to the trial and execution of the king. Its divisions were the ½, 1/4 and 1/8 écu, struck in billon. The écu was worth $1.10 in the USA before the Civil War. The 1792-A and 1793-A are the most available dates of this scarce type, the other mints are mostly rare.
Recorded mintage: unknown but common.
Specification: silver, 11 deniers (.917 fine), 8.3 pieces to the mark (29.488 g), face value 6 livres, 39 mm diameter. This specimen is 29,07 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-1335; Duplessy 1718; Ciani 2238; Gad-55; KM 615.9.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1964.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Gadoury, Victor, Monnaies Françaises, 1789-2019, 24me éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 2019.
- [1]Philippe Elsen et al., Vente Publique 122: Collection de monnaies chinoises, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils, S. A., 2014.
Link to:
- 1793-H demi-sol aux balance
- France (1793) 2 sols pattern
- 1793-B deux sols au balance
- 1792-B 2 sols
- France (1793) 2 sols pattern
- 1793-B 2 sols au balance
- 1793-H double sol à la balance
- France 1793 5 sols Brézin's pattern
- 1793-I 30 sols
- 1793-Q 30 sols
- 1793-A demi-écu constitutionnel
- France 1793 3 livres, pattern
- 1793-A écu constitutionnel
- 1793-AA écu constitutionnel
- 1793-B écu constitutionnel
- 1793-BB écu constitutionnel
- 1793-D écu constitutionnel
- 1793-I écu constitutionnel
- 1793-K écu constitutionnel
- 1793-L écu constitutionnel
- 1793-N écu constitutionnel
- 1793-R écu constitutionnel
- 1793-A 6 livres
- 1793-AA 6 livres
- 1793-BB 6 livres
- 1793-L 6 livres
- 1793-N 6 livres
- 1793-W 6 livres
- 1793-A 24 livres
- 1793-A louis d'or constitutionnel
- 1793-W 24 livres
- France L'AN 2-A centime, pattern
- France L'AN 2-A 5 decimes, pattern, statue of Isis
- Coins and currency dated 1793
- return to France