Watch List notes:

FRANCE, Royal. Louis XV le Bien-Aimé (the Well-Beloved). 1715–1774. AR Dixième d'écu de Navarre (22mm, 2.36 g, 6h). Strasbourg mint; différents: heart/star. Pierre l'Écrivain, engraver. Jean-Valentin Béyerlé, director. Dated 1718 BB. Duplessy 1660; Ciani 2104; KM 432.3. In NGC encapsulation graded AU 58. Very nicely toned about uncirculated. Only coin of this date and type ever graded.


Purchased from M. Louis Teller, June 1973.