Hand-Signed 1792 Law on Church Bell Coinage
France. LOI RELATIVE Ë LA MONNOIE DE CUIVRE PROVENANT DU MƒTAL DES CLOCHES. No. 1125. DonnŽe ˆ Paris, le 6 Juin 1792, l'an 4.e de la LibertŽ. Bordeaux: de l'Imprimerie de Simon Lacourt, 1792. 8vo, self-covered as issued. 3, (1) pages; woodcut device above drop title; hand-signed in ink by the certifying official on 26 juin 1792. Removed from previous binding; very good. A rare Bordeaux printing of a revision of the law of 8 septembre 1791, intended to remove some of the requirements affecting the coinage of copper coinage derived from melted church bells: "L'AssemblŽe Nationale, aprs avoir dŽclarŽ l'urgence, dŽcrete que les especes de cuivre seront dispenfŽes de la formalitŽ de l'article VIII de la loi du 8 Septembre 1791, & monnoyŽes fans distinction des semestres o elles auront ŽtŽ fabriquŽes." A very late numismatic document by this ill-fated monarch. Rare: not in Engel & Serrure (the Paris printing is No. 7881 in the SupplŽment).
Estimate: 200 USD