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<p>[QUOTE="Eduard, post: 3455968, member: 8959"]Thank you very much for posting your coin and your comments. That is a nice example of the Ecu de Six Livres de la Convention, minted at Lyon.</p><p>I find the edge device on these large coins specially interesting since they were impressed in high relief and are therefore very susceptible to early wear.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes! from my observations, various die marriages were used at each of the mints to strike these coins. Not only different from mint to mint, but also within a particular mint. As far as I can see, there is no concise study reporting these differences in die marriages, except for the major varieties. One of the major (and very scarce!) varieties were struck wi the the legend FRANCAISE (only struck at Strasbourg), instead of the common FRANCOISE. Another variety does not bear a a Gregorian calendar date, only the revolutionary date.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Eduard, post: 3455968, member: 8959"]Thank you very much for posting your coin and your comments. That is a nice example of the Ecu de Six Livres de la Convention, minted at Lyon. I find the edge device on these large coins specially interesting since they were impressed in high relief and are therefore very susceptible to early wear. Yes! from my observations, various die marriages were used at each of the mints to strike these coins. Not only different from mint to mint, but also within a particular mint. As far as I can see, there is no concise study reporting these differences in die marriages, except for the major varieties. One of the major (and very scarce!) varieties were struck wi the the legend FRANCAISE (only struck at Strasbourg), instead of the common FRANCOISE. Another variety does not bear a a Gregorian calendar date, only the revolutionary date.[/QUOTE]
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