Question about 1/12 Ecu

Philip · January 25, 2004 7:05PM

This question has been bugging me for the last month after I got my 17th century Krause for Christmas.

My sole posession is a French 1/12 Ecu with Louis XIV on it... fairly worn (I think a solid fine) and quite unimpressive, date and mintmark being 1649 B.

So, when I opened my new catalog, I saw that the price listed was as follows: -,-,-,-.

Does this indicate lack of information or is it the case I have something more interesting (impressive

)? Also, is there a difference between listing prices in that way and listing a coin as rare?

Askari · January 25, 2004 10:54PM

Unfortunately, no. If it really is extremely rare, though, they will sometimes not that fact instead of listing the "nulls."

1jester · January 25, 2004 11:13PM

So they have no idea what the value is?

Askari · January 25, 2004 11:23PM

Probably not. As you go back through the volumes on ever earlier centuries, you will find null entries increasingly common. The more thinly collected coins are, the less data there is for them to build a price database on. Not too infrequently, you'll also come across the "fill-in" syndrome, as I call it. This is where they have price profiles for a number of dates of a certain type of coin and then "fill in" the same profile across all the rest, whether they have the data or not.

1jester · January 25, 2004 11:35PM

Here's a 1/12 ecu from 1643. Look familiar?

Philip · January 26, 2004 2:45PM

Only one side of it

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