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Could Someone Give Me an I.D.

On this coin - diameter 27mm - probably French but .......

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Thanks in Advance

L

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  • Looks like Louis XVI, prior to the Revolution, probably a 12 deniers. Here's a link to a really bad scan of one from 1791... Could be a 6 deniers I suppose but I'm not sure of the size of those at the time.
    Vern
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  • I still don't have an 18th century Krause, but I do believe it is French off the top here.
    So many coins, so little money!
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep. Sounds like a 12-denier coin.

    As elverno mentioned, it's from the reign of the unfortunate Louis XVI, who was destined to become guillotine fodder a few years after that.

    I can't make the mintmark out- that would be at the bottom of the shield. That's a "bomb" privy mark below the bust, which indicates me that it should be an A-mintmark (Paris) coin. The bomb privy mark was also used at Perpignan (mintmark: Q), but a few years earlier than that.

    A 1785-A 12-denier piece lists for about four bucks in VG, in my old ANA Centennial hardcover Krause books I keep here at work, but those are a little over 10 years old now.

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  • French copper 1 Sol, C-73, 1785?, if bomb privy mark below the bust and the Paris (A) mint mark below the shield then its likely worth about $2-$4 or so. Mintage total of 328,000 is included with the scarcer 1/2 sol of the same date and mint.
    Brad Swain

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>French copper 1 Sol, C-73, 1785?, can't make out the privy mark below the bust or the Mint mark below the shield. Likely worth about $2 or so. >>



    Clarification of Brad's post: 12 deniers = 1 sol. Same thing.

    Definitely a bomb privy mark, there.


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  • Thanks everyone - very enlightening again........

    Lloyd
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Pretty endarkening too...image

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