1/10 Écu - Louis XV

The 1/10 écu denomination was introduced as part of the monetary reform of 1726 under Controller-General Dodun and his successor Orry, which stabilized the livre tournois after decades of ruinous devaluations under John Law's System and the subsequent monetary chaos of the early 1720s. The reform fixed gold-silver ratios and established a new coinage tariff that would hold, with remarkable durability, until the Revolution.

Struck at multiple mints across France, examples from smaller provincial ateliers — particularly Pau and Riom — are considerably scarcer than Paris product and command meaningful premiums that the reference numbers alone won't signal to an inattentive buyer.