½ Gold Louis with 8 Ls - Louis XIV
Features
| Issuer |
France
 |
|---|---|
| King |
Louis XIV (1643-1715)
|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 1668-1682 |
| Value | ½ Gold Louis |
| Currency | Livre tournois (1204-1795) |
| Composition | Gold (.917) |
| Weight | 3.376 g |
| Diameter | 20 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 377691 |
| References | Dy royales# 1431 Jean Duplessy; 1999. Les monnaies françaises royales. Maison Platt, Paris, France (2 volumes). Coin & Currency Institute (publisher). Gold Coins of the World. Coin & Currency Institute (7 volumes). Francesco Pastrone, Christian Charlet; 2018. Monnaies royales françaises de Louis XIII à Louis XVI / Volume 2: 1610-1792 (5th Edition). Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco, Monaco. |
Obverse
Juvenile bust right.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
LVD. XIIII. D. G. ☀️ FR. ET. NAV. REX.
1668
Engravers: Jean Warin, François Warin
Reverse
Cross formed of eight Ls leaning two by two, crowned, cantoned with four lilies.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
CHRS. REGN. VINC. IMP.
A
Engravers: Jean Warin, François Warin
Edge
Plain
Mints
| 9 | Rennes, France (?-1772) |
| A | Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date) |
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| 1668 A | |||||||||||||||
| 1669 A | |||||||||||||||
| 1670 A | |||||||||||||||
| 1671 A | |||||||||||||||
| 1674 A | |||||||||||||||
| 1677 A | |||||||||||||||
| 1678 A | |||||||||||||||
| 1679 A | |||||||||||||||
| 1680 9 | |||||||||||||||
| 1680 A | |||||||||||||||
| 1681 9 | |||||||||||||||
| 1682 A | |||||||||||||||
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Numista Rarity index: 97
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Bullion value: USD 442.85
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Actual gold weight: 0.100 oz
Current gold price: 4449.30 USD/oz (see gold price 
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