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<p>[QUOTE="talerman, post: 2970528, member: 89314"]Although G is normally the Poitiers mintmark, I do not think this coin was struck in Poitiers. In 1654, faced with a great shortage of low value coins for daily transactions, Louis XIV gave a concession for six years to Isaac Blondin to strike low value coins at 8 mints of his choice spread across the country separate from the royal mints. According to Gadoury, Blondin and his subcontractors had great difficulty in setting up their coin presses in towns with a royal mint where the mintmasters did not like this competition from (in their view, unscrupulous) moneyers. Unable to operate in Poitiers, Blondin ended up striking coins with a G in Lusignan and Châtellerault (about 25 kms. and 45 kms. from Poitiers respectively).According to Droulers, the Châtellerault issues can be distinguished from the Lusignan coins by the :FRANCE: between 2 colons on the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="talerman, post: 2970528, member: 89314"]Although G is normally the Poitiers mintmark, I do not think this coin was struck in Poitiers. In 1654, faced with a great shortage of low value coins for daily transactions, Louis XIV gave a concession for six years to Isaac Blondin to strike low value coins at 8 mints of his choice spread across the country separate from the royal mints. According to Gadoury, Blondin and his subcontractors had great difficulty in setting up their coin presses in towns with a royal mint where the mintmasters did not like this competition from (in their view, unscrupulous) moneyers. Unable to operate in Poitiers, Blondin ended up striking coins with a G in Lusignan and Châtellerault (about 25 kms. and 45 kms. from Poitiers respectively).According to Droulers, the Châtellerault issues can be distinguished from the Lusignan coins by the :FRANCE: between 2 colons on the reverse.[/QUOTE]
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