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Revision as of 20:13, 1 September 2024
This specimen was lot 22358 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Philadelphia, August 2018), where it sold for $480. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRANCE. Ecu, 1793-R. Orleans Mint. NGC AU-55. A highly original example from this scarcer mint, with a lovely veil of tone over the surfaces and strong underlying luster. A touch of central softness likely prevented the AU-58 grade." This specimen is a "constitutional écu" struck at the Orleans 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.
Specification: silver, 11 deniers (.917 fine), 8.3 pieces to the mark (29.488 g), face value 6 livres, 39 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: Dav-1335; KM-615.12; Gad-55.
- 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.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio and Chris Chatigny, The August 2018 Philadelphia ANA Auction: World Coins and Selections from the El Dorado Collection of Colombian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2018.
Links to:
- 1792-B 2 sols
- 1793-H demi-sol aux balance
- 1793-W 12 deniers
- 1793-A sol au balance
- 1793-AA sol au balance
- France (1793) 2 sols pattern
- 1793-B 2 sols au balance
- 1793-H double sol à la balance
- 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-M écu constitutionnel
- 1793-MA écu constitutionnel
- 1793-N 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
- Coins and currency dated 1793
- return to French royal coinage (to 1793)