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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cucumbor, post: 6741638, member: 4298&quot;]I don&#039;t</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact is records from the Trevoux mint tell about the large amount of demi écus minted that year. An hypothesis is after the production of luigini (1/12th écu) had stopped, a certain amount of silver bullion remained at the mint and would be struck on the occasion of the nomination of a new head (I have no evidence of that, other than I&#039;ve read it somewhere)</p><p><br /></p><p>An other fact is only 1669 was known as other year of production in the reference books from the 19th century (i.e. Mantellier, i.e. Poey d&#039;Avant), but they didn&#039;t mention the relative rarity/frequence of either date. 1665, 1672 and 1674, to my knowledge, have been mentioned for the first time in 2004 by Jean Paul Divo in what is considered now the reference book for the Dombes coinage. However, by that time, Mr Divo only counted the specimens in public collections and/or big auctions he knew of. A certain number of examples were/are in more obscure collections (some were already in mine at the date of parution that he didn&#039;t know about).</p><p><br /></p><p>1673 examples are offered at auction at least twice a year (there is one very nice example at the moment I write these lines</p><p>1669 is seen once every three to five years as an average (as with every rare coin, one often sees the same example offered)</p><p>I&#039;ve seen 1672 only once in 2012 (and the same again in 2014)</p><p>I&#039;ve never seen 1674 auctioned (mine was privately acquired)</p><p>And to finish with, the only example minted in 1665 offered is the one above, sold last week by CGB</p><p><br /></p><p>Q[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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