Watch List notes:

FRANCE, Royal. Louis XV le Bien-Aimé (the Well-Beloved). 1715–1774. AR Cinquième d'écu au bandeau (26mm, 5.86 g, 6h). Rouen mint; différents: root/spade. Pierre Racine de Bocherville, engraver. Alexandre le Peinturier de Guillerville, director. Dated 1741 B. Duplessy 1682; Ciani 2126; KM 515.3. In NGC encapsulation graded MS 63. Choice strike with very lustrous charcoal gray patina. This is a very choice coin with tremendous eye appeal. The highest ever graded for date and type.


Purchased from World-Wide Coins of California, November 1982.