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1/4 Ecu - Antonio I
| Issuer | Monaco |
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| Year | 1707 |
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| Currency | Livre tournois (781-1795) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Antoine I, Prince of Monaco, facing right, with long flowing wig rendered in fine detail characteristic of early 18th-century French-influenced portraiture. The effigy fills the center of the field, with the portrait truncated at the shoulder. A circular Latin legend surrounds the bust near the coin's periphery, separated by stops. |
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| Reverse lettering | .AVXILIVM. MEVM. A. DOMINO. 1707 |
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Antonio I ruled Monaco as a vassal of France under Louis XIV, and 1707 was a particularly precarious year — the War of the Spanish Succession had pushed French finances to the brink, and small client states like Monaco operated their mints under considerable political pressure to maintain stable coinage even as larger powers debased theirs. Antonio's silver issues from this period are genuinely scarce; Monaco's population was tiny and its mint output correspondingly limited, meaning surviving examples in any grade are infrequently encountered at auction.