CNG 100, Lot: 2151. Estimate $1000. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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FRANCE, Royal. Louis XVI. 1774–1793. AR Écu – 6 Livres (40mm, 29.52 g, 6h). Constitutional issue. Bordeaux mint; différents:
agnus Dei left/scallop. Jean-Jacques, Claude Jacques, or Jacques, Jr., engraver; Joseph Lambert, director. Dually dated
1792 B and L’An 4, 2nd semester. Head right / Winged genius of France standing right, inscribing tablet set on column; fasces surmounted by cap to left; to right, rooster standing left. Droulers 901; Duplessy 1718; Ciani 2238; Mazard 3. Superb EF, light toning in the devices of the reverse, traces of underlying luster.