France 1598-StP 1/4 ecu

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photo courtesy Stack's
France 1598StP quart ecu rev Stacks 3087.jpg
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.

Specification: 9.71 g, .917 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM 1.1?, Dupl-1238.

Source:

  • 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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