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Revision as of 16:35, 28 March 2021
This specimen is an écu au buste habillé struck at the Paris mint, one of a type struck there 1775-92 for France. Its divisions were the ½, 1/5, 1/10 and 1/20 écu, struck in modest quantities. The écu was worth $1.10 in the USA before the Civil War. The écu au buste habillé is the most popular coin of Louis XVI among collectors. The 1790-A is listed[1] about 25% higher than the most common date (1789-A) but it is common.
Specifications for the Écu au bandeau:
- Obverse: LUD.XVI.D.G.FR ET NAV. REX. (for Pau, NA.RE. BD), king’s uniformed bust 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 Benjamin Duvivier.
Recorded mintage: 3,700,000 (est.)[1].
Catalog reference: Dr/4 no. 883, Dr/2 no. 616, Dav-1333, KM 564.1.
- [1]Droulers, Frédéric, Répertoire General des Monnaies de Louis XIII à Louis XVI (1610-1792), 2nd édition. Paris: AFPN, 1998.
- 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 Royales Françaises, 1610-1792, 4me éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 2012.
- 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:
- 1789-M écu au buste habillé
- 1790-T liard à l'écu
- 1790-W liard à l'écu
- 1790-L dixième d'écu au buste habillé
- 1790-A demi-écu au buste habillé
- 1790-AA écu au buste habillé
- 1790-H écu au buste habillé
- 1790-I écu au buste habillé
- 1790-MA écu au buste habillé
- 1790-N louis d'or à la tête nue
- 1790-T louis d'or à la tête nue
- 1790-A double louis d'or à la tête nue
- 1790-K double louis d'or à la tête nue
- 1791-A écu au buste habillé
- 1792-A écu constitutionnel
- 1793-A 6 livres
- 1793-AA 6 livres
- Coins and currency dated 1790
- return to French royal coinage (to 1793)