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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bardolph, post: 14452290, member: 96174&quot;]According to Gadoury,&nbsp; there are five variants of the Louis XIII 1643 half ecu, all minted in Paris (mintmark A, at 6 o&#039;clock on the reverse.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The variants are distinguished by a mark at the 12 o&#039;clock position, between the 3 of the date and the S of SIT. They are:</p><p>with a rose - R1</p><p>with a rose between two dots - R2</p><p>with a rose, with a small bust&nbsp; - R4</p><p>with no dot and no rose - R2</p><p>with a dot - C</p><p><br /></p><p>R1 is Rarety level 1, more than 10,000 coins,&nbsp; R2 means 1000 to 10,000 coins while R4 indicates that between 76 and 199 coins are known to exist.&nbsp; C stands for Common,&nbsp; an innumerable number of coins, such as this one, I&#039;m sorry to say[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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