Extremely Rare Essai Louis D’argent - Écu de 60 Sols

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1512. Estimate $7500. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Louis XIII le Juste (the Just). 1610–1643. AR Essai Louis d’argent – Écu de 60 sols au type de la Monnaie assise (40mm, 29.38 g, 12h). By Jean Varin (Warin). Dated 1641. · LVDOVICVS · XIII · D · G · FR · ET ·NAV · REX, laureate and draped bust right / ARTE MEA BIS IVSTVS (by my skill twice just), La Monnaie, veiled and draped, seated left on draped ornate base, decorated with pellets and lis, holding in outstretched right hand a scale containing a coin in each pan, and cradling cornucopia in left arm; MONETA · LVD · IVST ·/ · 1641 · in two lines in exergue. Duplessy –; Droulers (2nd ed.) PH 6; Ciani 1651 = H. Hoffmann, Les monnaies royales de France depuis Hugues Capet jusqu'à Louis XVI (Paris, 1878), 81; Maison Palombo (30 April 2005), lot 198 (same dies); H. Rolland, Monnaies Françaises. Étude d’après le Cabinet Numismatique de G. Motte (Macon, 1932), 629 = Georges Motte Collection (Bourgey, 12 November 1951), lot 523 = 51 Gallery (9 December 2013), lot 287. EF, toned, evidence of prior mounting. Extremely rare.

From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection.