Difference between revisions of "France 1792-D 12 deniers"

From CoinVarieties
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m (Text replacement - "* [[France 1792-N 2 sols" to "* 1792-MA 2 sols * [[France 1792-N 2 sols")
m (Text replacement - "* [[Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols KM-Tn27" to "* Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols, seated liberty, no brackets around "PATENTÉ" * [[Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols KM-Tn27")
Line 46: Line 46:
 
* [[Clemanson 1792 2 sols token KM-Tn8|Clemanson et C<sup>E</sup> 1792 2 sols token]]
 
* [[Clemanson 1792 2 sols token KM-Tn8|Clemanson et C<sup>E</sup> 1792 2 sols token]]
 
* [[Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols KM-Tn25|Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols, seated liberty, "PATENTÉ"]]
 
* [[Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols KM-Tn25|Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols, seated liberty, "PATENTÉ"]]
 +
* [[Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols KM-Tn26|Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols, seated liberty, no brackets around "PATENTÉ"]]
 
* [[Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols KM-Tn27|Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols, Hercules]]
 
* [[Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols KM-Tn27|Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols, Hercules]]
 
* [[Monneron Freres 1792 5 sols KM-Tn28|Monneron Freres 1792 5 sols, oath, "PATENTÉ"]]
 
* [[Monneron Freres 1792 5 sols KM-Tn28|Monneron Freres 1792 5 sols, oath, "PATENTÉ"]]

Revision as of 21:30, 11 October 2025

from the Mountain Groan Collection
France 1792D 12 deniers rev DSLR.jpg

This twelve deniers, struck during the early stages of the French Revolution, before the arrest and trial of the king, was meant to supersede the sol of the ancien régime. It was struck at sixteen different mints and is very common in low grade. Many of these were produced by subcontractors outside the regular mint system; this specimen was struck at Dijon, not Lyon, as indicated by the dot after the "D" mintmark. This specimen is definitely brass.

The provisional mints of the Revolution.[1] Responding to an acute coin shortage caused by the collapse of the assignats, the National Assembly late in 1791 authorized the establishment of temporary mints to supplement the output of base metal coinage by the regular mints. These provisional mints were to be close to existing mints and supervised by mint personnel. These requirements were ignored. The following mints are known to have produced three, six and twelve denier pieces and two sols: Convent des Barnabites (in Paris, but outside the Mint), mintmark "A" with a dot; Arras, mintmark "W" with a dot; Besancon, mintmark "BB"; Clermont-Ferrand, mintmark "I" with a dot; Dijon, mintmark "D" with a dot; Metz (adjacent to the regular mint), mintmark "AA" with a dot; Roanne, mintmark "D"; and Saumur, mintmark "T" with a dot. Most of these mints were closed by the end of 1792 tho some may have operated into 1793.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 12.23 g, copper, bronze or brass.

Catalog reference: KM 600.5, Gad-15.

Source:

  • Duplessy, Jean, Les Monnaies Françaises Royales de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI (987-1793), Tome II, 2e édition, Paris: Maison Platt, 1999.
  • [1]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.

Link to:

Retrieved from "https://coinvarieties.com/index.php?title=France_1792-D_12_deniers&oldid=572937"