France Prepares to Aid America
Of American Interest

380, Lot: 622. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Louis XVI. 1774–1793. AR Jeton (28mm, 7.70 g, 6h). Commissaire de Guerre – France Prepares to Aid America. By Duvivier. Dated 1777. LUDOV · XVI · REX CHRISTIANIS, bust right / PACEM ARMA TUENTUR, Pax standing right, holding olive branch, resting hand on Mars seated right, head left, holding spear and resting hand on shield; cornucopia on ground to left; EXTRAORDINAIRE/ DE GUERRES/ 1777. Feuardant 903; Betts 558. EF, toned.