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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 49658, member: 112&quot;]Well Ian it seems I have solved my own problem. The coins were struck in Saumur - not Nantes. </p><p><br /></p><p>You see, at the time, the new French govt. was having a problem. Older coins struck before the revolution were being hoarded by the populace. The people weren&#039;t quite confident that the new coinage would have metal content of equal fineness as the old coinage. And even obtaining the metal to strike coins was a huge problem. So in 1791 the French National Assembly ordered bells confiscated and melted down. Copper coinage was to be struck using the metal from these bells. And in order to accelerate the striking and issuance of coins it further ordered that the cities and towns having these stocks of metal from the bells to set up workshops and mint their own coins. They were to retain the mint mark letter of the mint nearest them.</p><p><br /></p><p>On Jan. 29th, 1792 they issued another decree. In Article #1 it stated - ( translated from French ) &quot;the blanks of the metal of bell manufactured in the towns of Besancon , Clermont-Ferrand , Arras , Dijon and Saumur will receive there without displacement the monetary print with the corner of the new prints&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>So what this means is that the coin WAS struck in Saumur, not Nantes. But since Nantes was the closest mint to Saumur - Saumur used the T mint mark on the coins it issued. Saumur struck and issued these coins from May 15, 1792 until March 1793.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Farstaff - this makes this coin even more interesting and speical in my opinion. But I doubt it would change the value any. Even so - truly it makes for a unique bit of history&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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