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I had my eye on this 1716 French ecu for a few weeks and was just waiting for payday. Last night I took the plunge.  The majority of these early Louis XV types are "reformations" that were overstruck on Louis XIV ecus. This one was struck on a new flan. |
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 Unusual, very nice. |
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Greece
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That's a very nice coin.Can you tell us how mych you paid for that?
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Very nice. Once my wife and I finish our post-revolutionary France type set, we will be moving to pre-revolutionary.
Very nice piece.
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and if I had to guess on price, $300-400 range?
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I'm the reverse. I started collecting pre-revolutionary France (and French Feudal States) with the idea that I would someday I would move on to collecting post-revolutionary France.
The later 5 Franc pieces are temping - eventually I will start collecting them.
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gorgeous 5 Franc piece ianmprice!
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Oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about t360.....the French addiction....ecus. Beautiful!
I'm more interested in the revolutionary and post revolutionary coins. But a couple of Henri IV hammered demi francs have crept in. I expect the ecus will be soon to follow.
Right after I finish the Napoleonic two franc series....
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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09/27/2010 10:04 pm
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United States
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Wonderful coin...I have also noticed that most of the ecus from this early period of Louis XV were overstruck. Question if anyone can answer...Did Louis XIII produce ecus? I've seen the demi-ecus from his reign, but I also know that the coinage was changing at that time from that of the way his father Henri IV had produced silver coinage. I don't have the Krause 1601-1700. Thanks.
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Yes Louis XIII minted ecus from 1641 to 1643.
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Here are some scans of the 1643-A (Paris) Louis XIII 1/2 ecu and ecu in my collection.   |
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United States
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Thanks t360...the full ecus of Louis XIII do not seem to be readily available...even the Ecu a la meche longue of Louis XIIII; I'm having problems sourcing much of a choice of coins...but I'll tell ya, the Ecus have me hooked.
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Take a look at the https://www.cgb.fr site if you want to see a LOT of French coins. They don't show any silver Louis XIII ecus in current inventory, but their recent #44 auction of royals shows a few, so you'd find many more if you browsed their older auction catalogs. It looks like 1000+ euros for one of these ecus in the VF range. They're pretty easy to deal with. Over the past couple of years I've bid in their auctions and occasionally won. You might also find something on https://www. ebay. fr (sorry I can't force this address in any other way without an auto change), which is where I picked up the Henri IV demi francs. I've found that the older French coins price a lot like US gold, in that there's not much of a premium for scarcity until a coin is truly rare. There are so many types, periods and mints that obscurity is the rule rather than the exception. I try to focus on southern mints like Bordeaux, Bayonne, Perpignan, Toulouse and La Rochelle. "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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09/30/2010 10:30 pm
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I found some Louis XIII ecus listed on ma-shops.com, theirry DUMEZ has a 1643-A point, better than the one in my collection, OGN Numismatique has a 1642-A, and Alan CHELAIN has five, including the 1643-D (Lyon) which was the only Louis XIII ecu not minted in Paris. Of course you can likely can do better on price by patiently watching the French auctions and bidding on them. It might take a while to get one, though. Since they are the first milled crowns of France, there seems to be more collector interest in them than for some of the scarce later types (such as the Louis XIV "Parliament" and "Flanders" issues of the 1670s-1680s). |
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Posted 09/25/2010 11:56 am
