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HippieOutcast Pillar of the Community United States 615 Posts	Posted 11/20/2009 12:46 am Hey guys, I'm not sure how accurate the details on the flip are, but I don't know what to make of it either way. Could someone explain this coin to me in plain layman's English? Identified - moved to World Coins forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16868 Posts	Posted 11/20/2009 02:35 am The coin is from France. It doesn't have a date on it, but it was struck during the reign of French king Francis I (his name in French is "François I"), who reigned from 1515 to 1547. The coin is "silver" (that's what the "AR" means; fineness unspecified). The denomination has the rather lengthy name of "douzaine à la croisette" which translates to "a douzain (dozen) with a cross on it", so called because there were 12 deniers to a douzain. "Ciani" is a French Kingdom coin catalogue reference, their equivalent of the US RedBook or the British Spink for the pre-Revolutionary period. One thing the flip seems to neglect to mention is the mintmark: I can see the letter "M" on both sides. I believe this is the mintmark for Toulouse. There isn't a 1500s Krause catalogue yet, and I don't have Ciani or any other catalogue giving values for coins of this period, so I don;t know what a book value might be. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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