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* [[France 1599-L 1/4 ecu|1599-L ''quart d'écu au marteau'']] | * [[France 1599-L 1/4 ecu|1599-L ''quart d'écu au marteau'']] | ||
* [[France 1603-D 1/2 franc|1603-D ''demi-franc'']] | * [[France 1603-D 1/2 franc|1603-D ''demi-franc'']] | ||
| − | * [[France 1604-A double tournois|1604-A | + | * [[France 1604-A double tournois|1604-A double tournois]] |
* [[France 1603-StP 1/4 ecu|1603 ''quart d'écu de Navarre'']] | * [[France 1603-StP 1/4 ecu|1603 ''quart d'écu de Navarre'']] | ||
* [[Coins and currency dated 1598]] | * [[Coins and currency dated 1598]] | ||
Revision as of 19:26, 3 January 2023
File:France 1598StP quart ecu obv 600.jpg
the same specimen
File:France 1598StP quart ecu rev 600.jpg
from the Mountain Groan Collection
This specimen was struck by the hammer at St-Palais in Béarn 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. It had a face value of fifteen sols tournois. The SCWC lists an expensive quarter écu for St-Palais (KM 31) but these are probably the scarce machine-struck specimens; as the SCWC offers no picture, one cannot be definite.
Recorded mintage: unknown but somewhat available.
Specification: 9.71 g, .917 fine silver.
Catalog reference: Sb 4710 (9 ex.), KM 1.1?, Dupl-1238.
- Duplessy, Jean, Les Monnaies Françaises Royales de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI (987-1793), Tome II, 2e édition, Paris: Maison Platt, 1999.
- Sombart, Stéphan, Franciae IV: Catalogue des Monnaies Royales Françaises de François Ier à Henri IV (1540-1610), Paris: Éditions les Chevau-légers, 1997.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
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