Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
August 2015 ANA Auction - Session A 12 August 2015
View prices realized
► Sale information
Find similar lots
FRANCE. 1/2 Ecu, 1791-A. Louis XVI (1774-90). NGC MS-64.
Dup-1709; Gad-355. Stands alone as the finest certified example at both NGC and PCGS. Light to medium obverse pewter coloration with a shoreline of garnet-orange tone along the portrait and through the legends. The reverse is a bit more smoky with plenty of pop from the underlying luster. Struck the year after Louis XVI had been deposed, but before the Jacobins and Girondins (two revolutionary factions) could decide on what to do with him. The Jacobins eventually prevailed and the king was executed less than 2 years later. The piece offered here for your consideration is a masterpiece of numismatic art, and in a near perfect state of preservation. Coins of this quality tend to remain off the market for many years; an opportunity not to be missed. NGC MS-64.
Estimate: $1000.00- $1500.00
Dup-1709; Gad-355. Stands alone as the finest certified example at both NGC and PCGS. Light to medium obverse pewter coloration with a shoreline of garnet-orange tone along the portrait and through the legends. The reverse is a bit more smoky with plenty of pop from the underlying luster. Struck the year after Louis XVI had been deposed, but before the Jacobins and Girondins (two revolutionary factions) could decide on what to do with him. The Jacobins eventually prevailed and the king was executed less than 2 years later. The piece offered here for your consideration is a masterpiece of numismatic art, and in a near perfect state of preservation. Coins of this quality tend to remain off the market for many years; an opportunity not to be missed. NGC MS-64.
Estimate: $1000.00- $1500.00