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1693-M [Toulouse Mint] Sol de 15 Deniers, Gadoury 92.

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:125.00 CAD Estimated At:300.00 - 400.00 CAD
1693-M [Toulouse Mint] Sol de 15 Deniers, Gadoury 92.

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1693-M [Toulouse Mint] Sol de 15 Deniers, Gadoury 92. Very Fine or so, the host coin weakly overstruck on a 1550 Douzain aux Croissants of Henri II, uncertain mint for the host coin. A really amazing piece, there is far more of the older coin of Henri II visible than of the Recoined Sol – but there is enough there to securely place the date and mintmark, though it takes a lot of patience to find them! One wonders how the piece would have been accepted as the increased 15 Denier rate in circulation when a contemporary would have been hard pressed to see the overstrike at all – or why somewhere along the line it wasn’t re-recoined with a better strike! In any event it is one of the more visually stunning of the recoined sol type, and it is UNLISTED in Gadoury as being over one of the large “antique” host coins that would have been in circulation nearly 150 years by the time it was overstruck.