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''Specification:'' 1.47 g, .917 fine silver, 18-19 mm diameter.
 
''Specification:'' 1.47 g, .917 fine silver, 18-19 mm diameter.
  
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''Catalog reference:'' Dr/2 no. 588a, Dr/4 no. 857a, KM 531.
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''Catalog reference:'' Dr/2 № 588a, Dr/4 no. 857a, KM 531.
  
 
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from the Mountain Groan Collection
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This diminutive coin, called a vingtième d'écu au bandeau, was the French equivalent of a half dime. In the coinage system of the ancien régime, the vingtième d'écu = 6 sols. The type was struck 1740-70 but is recorded for the Pau mint (cow mintmark) in 1741 and 1747-49, 1752-60, 1762, 1764, 1766-67, 1769-70 only.

Recorded mintage: 15,936. Listed in Droulers[1] as rare even in low grade. This date is unlisted in the SCWC[2].

Specification: 1.47 g, .917 fine silver, 18-19 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Dr/2 № 588a, Dr/4 no. 857a, KM 531.

Source:

  • [1]Droulers, Frédéric, Répertoire General des Monnaies de Louis XIII à Louis XVI (1610-1792), 4e édition. Paris: AFPN, 2009.
  • Duplessy, Jean, Les Monnaies Françaises Royales de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI (987-1793), Tome II, 2e édition, Paris: Maison Platt, 1999.
  • Gadoury, Victor, Monnaies Royales Françaises, 1610-1792, 5me éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 2018.
  • [2]Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.

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