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I just received this coin in a box of mixed "modern" world coins. This coin is gold and looks to be struck coin and has 2 scratches that look like someone "cut into it to do a gold test". The coin scales in at 4.15 grams and using the Coinoscop App I can't find anything close. So any help would be nice Thanks Russ   Edited by twohawks
01/15/2022 2:29 pm
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It certainly looks like a Louis X agnel d'or, minted in France around 1310. If genuine, it is worth a few thousand dollars. The weight is correct and I can't see anything immediately wrong with it, but it would be best to let an expert have a look at it.
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The gold content, of this piece are correct for this time period provided. So, it looks like this coin is about a 95% certainty. Can you direct to a web site or a book that I could use to determine the correct dating of this piece?
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01/15/2022 11:21 pm
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It is definitely Louis X - despite the text below the lamb being garbled by the scratch, I can read LVD REX, and the only LVDOVICVS REX who minted agnels is Louis X. He reigned 1314-16 and minting of agnels began in 1315, so the minting period is neatly narrowed down to 1315-16. Which also explains their relative rarity compared to agnel d'ors minted by other more long reigning kings.
What gold content have you measured? These coins should nominally be 100 % pure gold, but more realistically they are 96-98 %.
I'm not aware of any good online resources for these coins. The best book is Duplessy's Les Monnaies Françaises Royales de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI (987-1793), 1999. Volume I covers the coins from this period.
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01/16/2022 10:04 am
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After finding out what it was, I called a buddy, and he has a friend that collects this type of stuff. This piece is just over 99.3% I had it lasered late yesterday.
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This piece is just over 99.3% High, but not unreasonably high. Could very well be the real stuff, in which case you have a gem here. Send it in for grading perhaps. |
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Yep, I wish I found it 4 days ago, I dropped of an 86/60 BC gold piece at the FUN show last week. The double shipping is a killer LOL
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It looks authentic to me as well. Congratulations on a wonderful find. There is still magic in the world.
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01/16/2022 4:15 pm
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The double shipping is a killer LOL If it's real, it won't matter. Like @erafjel and @t360, I don't see any obvious tell of it being a fake, but I'm no expert. |
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I just found this exact coin online while putting my NGC submission information down. I mean "This exact coin" it was sold back around 2006 in France. The damage in the images is a dead match
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@two, yikes that was quite a pick-up then--well done. Would you mind sharing with us what you paid for it?
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Well, I bought 30 pounds of Raw foreign "non-US" coinage for $ 8.00 US per pound. So, for everything 240 US dollars, and I also found a 2.5 1945 gold Peso that has 150 US in gold. So, I think this group was a good buy!
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here is a web page of this coin that has a web date around 2006. THIS is This coin! how it got into a junk bucket in the US from an auction in France in 2006 is beyond my imagination.  Edited by twohawks
01/16/2022 9:01 pm
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That is an amazing pick up! Congratulations and thanks for sharing this with us.
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for everything 240 US dollars And previously sold - and considered authentic - by a major French auction house, that is an amazing find!  |
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