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| − | * [[France 1605-Morlaas 1/8 ecu|1605 ''huitième d'écu | + | * [[France 1605-Morlaas 1/8 ecu|1605 ''huitième d'écu du Béarn'', Morlaas mint]] |
* [[France 1605-I 1/2 franc|1605-I ''demi-franc'']] | * [[France 1605-I 1/2 franc|1605-I ''demi-franc'']] | ||
* [[France 1605-9 1/4 ecu|1605-9 ''quart d'écu'']] | * [[France 1605-9 1/4 ecu|1605-9 ''quart d'écu'']] | ||
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* [[France 1606-G 1/4 ecu|1606-G ''quart d'écu'']] | * [[France 1606-G 1/4 ecu|1606-G ''quart d'écu'']] | ||
* [[France 1606-Pau 1/4 ecu|1606 ''quart d'écu du Béarn'', Pau mint]] | * [[France 1606-Pau 1/4 ecu|1606 ''quart d'écu du Béarn'', Pau mint]] | ||
Revision as of 12:42, 2 April 2023
This specimen was lot 72177 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Santa Ana, CA, May 2017), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRANCE. 1/4 Ecu, 1605-C. Saint Lo Mint. Henry IV (1589-1610). NGC EF-45. Nice round flan with full legends on both sides." This specimen was struck by the hammer at St.-Lô in Normandy 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. Duplessy notes this type for the St.-Lô and Rennes mints. It varies from the design used at other mints by having crowns at the ends of the cross rather than fleurs-de-lys.
Recorded mintage: 171,241.
Specification: 9.71 g, .917 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-28, Duplessy 1230, Sb-4682.
- 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.
- [1]Ponterio, Rick, et al., The May 2017 Collector's Choice Sale, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.
Link to:
- 1604-L quart d'écu
- 1605 huitième d'écu du Béarn, Morlaas mint
- 1605-I demi-franc
- 1605-9 quart d'écu
- 1605 quart d'écu du Béarn, Morlaas mint
- 1606-G quart d'écu
- 1606 quart d'écu du Béarn, Pau mint
- 1607-C quart d'écu
- 1607-T quart d'écu au marteau
- Coins and currency dated 1605
- return to French royal coinage (to 1793)