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Revision as of 17:12, 28 March 2021
This specimen is an cinquième d'écu du Béarn au buste habillé struck at the Pau mint (mintmark "cow"), one of a type struck there 1775 and 1777. It was lot 2148 in Jean Elsen sale 87. The 1777-Pau is priced[1] about five times higher than the most common date (1787-R).
Specification:
- Obverse: LUD.XVI.D.G.FR ET 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; reeded edge.
- composition: silver, 11 deniers (.917 fine), 41.5 pieces to the mark (5.83 g), face value 24 sols, 26-27 mm diameter. Engraved by Benjamin Duvivier.
Recorded mintage: 31,605[1], 32,000[2].
Catalog reference: Dr/4 no. 886a, Dr/2 no. 619a, KM 570.
- [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.
- [2]Krause, Chester L, and Clifford Mishler, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 3rd ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2002.
Links to:
- 1777-A cinquième d'écu au buste habillé
- 1777-L écu au buste habillé
- 1777-M écu au buste habillé
- 1777-I double louis d'or au buste habillé
- 1777-K double louis d'or au buste habillé
- 1777-W double louis d'or au buste habillé
- 1777-D double louis d'or au buste habillé
- 1782-A 1/5 écu
- 1786-Pau écu
- Coins and currency dated 1777
- return to French royal coinage (to 1793)