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* Duplessy, Jean, ''Les Monnaies Françaises Royales de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI (987-1793), Tome II, 2e édition, Paris: Maison Platt, 1999. | * 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. | * Roberts, James N., ''The Silver Coins of Medieval France (476-1610 AD), S. Salem, NY: Attic Books, 1996. | ||
| − | * <sup>[1]</sup>Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, ''The August 2020 ANA Auction: World Coins, featuring the Duke of Lansing Collection,'' Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020. | + | * <sup>[1]</sup>Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, ''The August 2020 ANA Auction: World Coins, featuring the Duke of Lansing Collection,'' Santa Ana, CA: [http://www.stacksbowers.com Stack's Bowers LLC], 2020. |
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Revision as of 21:47, 25 May 2021
This specimen was lot 22546 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Las Vegas, August 2020), where it sold for $432. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRANCE. 1/4 Ecu, 1603-T. Nantes Mint. Henry IV. PCGS AU-55 Gold Shield. A well centered coin with nearly complete readable peripheral legends and attractive orange to pea green hues visible in some of the protected areas. The fields exhibit nothing in the way of notable marks or scuffs." This specimen was struck by the hammer at Nantes during the reign of Henry IV, founder of the Bourbon dynasty (1589-1793). This was the largest silver coin regularly struck in France prior to the introduction of milled coinage in the 1640's.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 9.71 g, 0.917 fine silver.
Catalog reference: Dup-1224.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- 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.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The August 2020 ANA Auction: World Coins, featuring the Duke of Lansing Collection, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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