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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 77610, member: 283&quot;]That condition is about as good as you will find these particular denomination coins in (ditto its smaller brother the 15 sols). They are usually pretty much sought after too. </p><p><br /></p><p>The real daddy of course is the ecu of six livres. I&#039;ve got a couple but i&#039;ll have to dig them out and scan them. They aren&#039;t in my picture library for some reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one of the type that has eluded me so far is the 1/2 ecu. Boy, they are difficult! The one with my name on it is still in hiding.</p><p><br /></p><p>The story of the lucky `Angel&#039; has been told here on this forum before methinks. How the designer was sentenced to be guillotined for his royalist sympathies. Legend has it that he had a [Louis D&#039;Or] coin bearing the angel design sewn into his jacket and used it to bribe his escape from the Bastille. Hence the coin being known as a `lucky angel&#039; and its use.</p><p><br /></p><p>All I can say with regards to it being lucky or otherwise is that it didn&#039;t bring much luck of the `good&#039; variety for Louis XVI. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>(Edit in []&#039;s from 20 fr to Louis D&#039;or)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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