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[[Category:Selections from the Stack's Bowers 2025 Collectors Choice sale]][[Category: Silver minors of France]] | [[Category:Selections from the Stack's Bowers 2025 Collectors Choice sale]][[Category: Silver minors of France]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:24, 1 April 2026
This specimen was lot 74642 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRANCE. Teston, 1557-M. Toulouse Mint. Henry II. PCGS AU-50. From the Richard August Collection." This type struck 1551-61 with nine examples of the 1557-M reported by Sombart. Toulouse is the most common mint.
Recorded mintage: 86,521, including some demi-testons[2].
Specification: 9.59 g, 0.899 fine silver.
Catalog reference: Sb 4572, Dupl-983; Ciani-1266.
- Duplessy, Jean, Les Monnaies Françaises Royales de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI (987-1793), Tome II, 2e édition, Paris: Maison Platt, 1999.
- Roberts, James N., The Silver Coins of Medieval France (476-1610 AD), S. Salem, NY: Attic Books, 1996.
- [2]Sombart, Stéphan, Franciae IV: Catalogue des Monnaies Royales Françaises de François Ier à Henri IV (1540-1610), Paris: Éditions les Chevau-légers, 1997.
- [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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