⅛ Sol - Maria Theresa

Features

Issuer	Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Duchess	Maria Theresa (1740-1780)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	1775
Value	⅛ Sol (1⁄160)
Currency	Sol (?-1795)
Composition	Copper
Weight	1.7 g
Diameter	17.0 mm
Thickness	1.0 mm
Shape	Round
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 36090
References	L# 253-1 Romain Probst; 2003. Prifix: catalogue illustré des monnaies luxembourgeoises (1026 - 2001). Banque du Timbre et Lux-Numis, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. , Weiller# 243 Raymond Weiller; 1977. Les Monnaies Luxembourgeoises = Luxembourgish Coins. Institut supérieur d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. , Vanhoudt Ned.# 840 Hugo Vanhoudt. De munten van de Bourgondische, Spaanse en Oostenrijkse Nederlanden en van de Franse en Hollandse periode. Vanhoudt, Heverlee, Belgium (2 volumes). , KM# 5 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , BV# 254 Édouard Bernays, Jules Vannérus. Histoire numismatique du comté puis duché de Luxembourg et de ses fiefs (2 volumes).

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Obverse

Luxemburg crowned shield, burled with ten pieces behind a rampant and crowned lion, forked tail and passed in saltire.
External dentition.

Lettering: Anépigraphe

Reverse

In four lines, the face value between two rosettes, the mint year and the mark of the Brussels mint (angel's head) between two rosettes.
The top of the 8 is not closed.
Point in the 'O' of 'SOL' and point after the date.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
✿ 1⁄ 8 ✿
SOL
1775•

Edge

Plain

Mint

Royal Mint of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium (983-2017)

Comments

Type part of the third issue of Maria Theresa, struck at the Brussels mint.
The 1/8 sol was considered a small liard, also called "gigots".

The 1/8 sol was struck to have course only in the Duchy of Luxembourg, however, we rarely find this type, explanations:

Extract of Bernays & Vannerus, 1910, page 396.

Some people, at the time, erased the bar, the 8 and rosettes, whitened the pieces and made them look like pieces of 1 sol.

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Date			Mintage		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1775			2 709 033			$ 12	$ 23	$ 31

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