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1/4 écu 'vertugadin' - Louis XV
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1716-1718 |
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| Engraver(s) | Joseph Charles Roettiers |
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| Reverse description | The Royal Arms of France — a circular shield charged with three fleurs-de-lis in 2-1 arrangement — occupies the centre of the reverse, surmounted by a large royal crown. The shield is set within a plain inner circle. The mint date appears at the top of the surrounding legend, which reads SIT•NOMEN•DOMINI•BENEDICTVM (Blessed be the Name of the Lord), a devotional motto standard to French royal silver coinage of this period. The mint mark appears at the base of the design beneath the shield. |
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| Mintage | 1716 - (fr) KM#419.24 - 1716 & - KM#419.23 - 1716 9 - KM#419.22 - 1716 A - KM#419.1 - 1716 AA - KM#419.2 - 1716 B - KM#419.3 - 1716 C - KM#419.4 - 1716 D - KM#419.5 - 345,000 1716 E - KM#419.6 - 1716 G - KM#419.7 - 1716 H - KM#419.8 - 1716 I - KM#419.9 - 1716 K - KM#419.10 - 1716 M - KM#419.11 - 1716 N - KM#419.12 - 1716 O - KM#419.13 - 1716 P - KM#419.14 - 1716 S - KM#419.15 - 1716 T - KM#419.16 - 1716 V - KM#419.17 - 1716 W - KM#419.18 - 1716 X - KM#419.19 - 1716 Y - KM#419.20 - 1716 Z - KM#419.21 - 77,000 1717 & - KM#419.23 - 1717 9 - KM#419.22 - 1717 B - KM#419.3; 2 known - 1717 C - KM#419.4 - 1717 E - KM#419.6 - 80,000 1717 G - KM#419.7 - 1717 I - - 1717 K - KM#419.10 - 144,000 1717 M - - 1717 P - KM#419.14 - 1717 W - KM#419.18 - 1717 X - - 1718 N - KM#419.12 - 1718 T - KM#419.16 - 1718 W - KM#419.18 - |
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The "vertugadin" nickname derives from the pronounced rounded truncation at the base of the young Louis XV's portrait — a shape contemporaries likened to the vertugadin, the hooped underskirt fashionable a century earlier. This brief issue spans only the Regency period under Philippe d'Orléans, when France's royal mint was simultaneously navigating the catastrophic monetary experiments of John Law, whose Mississippi Company scheme was already destabilizing the livre system these coins nominally anchored.
Dy 1653 encompasses multiple mint marks across the three-year window. Paris output dominates surviving examples, but provincial mint pieces from this type are considerably scarcer and frequently overlooked.