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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Siberian Man, post: 2055785, member: 22500&quot;]- 6 sols (silver .917, weight - 1,529 g.). First release was at 1716. It is strange but 6 sols of the king Louis XV was equal to 1/20 ecu, but 5 sols of the king Louis XIV was equal to 1/16 ecu. Since the 1726 the weight of 6-sols coin was 1,474 g. only. The last release was at 1783 during the reign of the king Louis XVI.</p><p>- 10 sols (silver .798, weight - 3,392 g.). Was equal to 1/8 ecu. The first release was at 1704 and the last release - at 1719. But during the French Revolution (at 1792) a silver tokens with such face value were released.</p><p>10 sols is a strange coin: different Mints released such coins with a different weight. For example - 10 sols of Metz Mint weighed 3,392 g., but 10 sols of Paris Mint - 3,263 g. only. </p><p>Moreover! Since the 1710 Strassburg Mint released 10-sols coins with the weight 3,098 g. only. During the reign of the king Louis XV (1715-1774) the weight of 10-sols coins was reduced to 2,04 grams, thus, content of silver was increased to the .917 (such coins were circulated in Navarre and Bearn).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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