Interesting Overstrike

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 987. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Louis XV le Bien-Aimé (the Well-Beloved). 1715–1774. AR Demi écu dit “vertugadin”. Paris mint; Georges Roettiers, engraver general. Dated 1716 A. LVD • XV • D • G • FR • ET • NAV • REX (trefoil), young laureate, draped, and curiassed bust right; rosette below bust; on edge: SALVUM FAC REGEM DOMINE (lis framed by laurel spray and pellet stops) / • SIT • NOMEN • DOMINI • • BENEDICTVM * 1651, crowned coat-of-arms of France; A below shield. Duplessy 1652A; Ciani 2097; VG 308; KM 420.1. EF, toned with trace of underlying luster. Overstruck on Duplessy 1569, dated 1710.