{"product_id":"867378-coin-france-louis-xv-1-4-ecu-aux-3-couronnes-1715-montpellier-unique","title":"France, Louis XV, 1\/4 Ecu aux 3 couronnes, 1715, Montpellier, Unique, Silver","description":"\u003cp id=\"head\"\u003eBust of Louis XV on the right, cuirassed, bareheaded; below, mint mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"reverse\"\u003eThree crowns set in 1 and 2 in a triangle, separated by three lilies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"comment\"\u003eA unique example! Struck at the end of 1715, A. Clairand (2023) tells us that the effigy die was sent to the Montpellier mint on 26 November 1715, and arrived on 4 December. (AD Hérault 3B 8) After being seen in the Bourgey sale of 1927, this coin remained unknown in numismatic literature for a very long time. In 1986, Bruno Collin, in his work concerning the coinage of Montpellier, p. 270, did not mention it and attributed all the silver produced in Montpellier in 1715 to the effigy of Louis XIV. Frédéric Droulers, in the 1998 edition of his Répertoire , no. 552, p. 534, did not know it either, but rightly assumed that quarter ecu with three crowns in the effigy of Louis XV were struck in Montpellier in 1715. In his 2012 edition, he mentions that it is in the collections of the Département des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, but this is an error of his own. However, an example for the Aix mint is conserved in the Cabinet des Médailles in Marseille. Other mints had dies delivered at the end of 1715 (Clairand 2023), Lille (CAÉF, MP, F17-1, dossier 14), Nantes (AD Loire-Atlantique, B 5310), Toulouse (AD Haute-Garonne, 9B 32), and Troyes (AD Aube, 4B 83) but no examples have yet been seen for these mints. On the history of this coin, the \"three crowns\" types were struck from 1709, with Louis XIV's effigy on these silver series until 1 September 1715, the day of his death. N. Roëttiers was commissioned to engrave the effigy of Louis XV, however, he could only deliver the die for the ecu and quarter ecu for the year 1715. Textual sources provide precise information on the number of coins issued between 7 and 31 December, which was 12,192. However, these coins were quickly called back and reformed to the \"Vertugadin\" type, and this example is the only one known at this time for the Montpellier mint. Scratches on the obverse, in the field to the left of the king. Old cleaning visible in the fields. Traces of haymarks on the reverse. There are also a few impurities in the legend on the reverse. Pedigree: From the collection of Commandant Auguste Gaston Pierre Babut de Rosan (Bourgey sale, 28 March-1 April 1927, no. 817), the Jacques Gorphe collection of Vannes and the collection of André Libaud of Nantes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"headCaption\"\u003e•LVD•XV•D•G• \/ •FR•ET•NAV•REX•\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"reverseCaption\"\u003e(Sun) •SIT•NOMEN•DOMINI• (em) •BENEDICTVM•1715•\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"weight\"\u003e7.61 gr\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"cdma","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43535698624741,"sku":"867378","price":50000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/1655\/7029\/files\/867378A.jpg?v=1771978137","url":"https:\/\/www.numiscorner.com\/products\/867378-coin-france-louis-xv-1-4-ecu-aux-3-couronnes-1715-montpellier-unique","provider":"Numiscorner.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}