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1738-BB Billon Sous Marques. Vlack UNLISTED, will be known as Vlack 249a. Rarity-8.

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:300.00 CAD Estimated At:750.00 - 800.00 CAD
1738-BB Billon Sous Marques.  Vlack UNLISTED, will be known as Vlack 249a.  Rarity-8.

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BB – Strasbourg Mint - 1738-BB Billon Sous Marques. Vlack UNLISTED, will be known as Vlack 249a. Rarity-8. Very Fine, the legends sharp, the design details quite nice on either side. Lovely light pewter with golden hues, the surfaces minutely grainy, but not bad looking, especially since it is free of marks. A major punctuation variation variety for both sides, unlisted in Vlack, and quite different from what he calls for. The obverse has a stop between the rowel different and the date, and another between the mintmark and BENEDICTUM but nowhere else in the legend, while the Vlack listing shows a stop between each word (as was the case with the 249 in his collection); on the reverse there is no stop on either side of the heart different, and no stop between ET and NAV. Most new varieties are fairly minor changes – one more stop added or missing from the legend on one side of the coin, but this example is quite different from the punctuation variations found on any other Strasbourg mint issue! Quite important, we have not seen another.