May I join the party ? Sme nice french silver coins/kings portraits folks. Sadly I haven't got any of those big chunks (the official reason is they dond'nt fit in my Abafil trays because they are so big ) Here are some portraits of Louis XVI on a 1/2 ecu, a 12 denier and a 30 sols : Q
1694 and 1697 ecu, i'm reposting them from the world crowns page, some of my favourite coins for sure.
Great coins, @PaulTudor Mine is below: Louis XIV (1638 - 1715 A.D.) AR Ecu O: LVD•XIIII•D•G (soleil) FR•ET•NAV•REX, Bust with square neckline. R: Lettering: SIT•NOMEN•DOMINI• E BENEDICTVM 1693 M Crowned round arms of France within sprays. Toulouse - flan réformé 38mm 27.45g Dy# 1520
Here is my 1792. I collect pre WWI multiple denomination crowns. However, this is one of the two non-multiple denomination crowns I keep.
Very nice addition, Mat! I do not own any Ecu's issued under the reign of Louis XVI, but have these two issued by the guys who sent him to the guillotine - La Convention Nationale.
Nice ecus, everybody. Here are a couple of them that wound up in Berne Switzerland c. 1816 to get counterstamped as 40 Batzen pieces - they also had the rims redone. I read somewhere that most of these got melted down by c. 1850 by Swiss watchmakers to use for cases: And then there's these - over the years if an ecu came up cheap, I tended to buy it:
