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1 Décime - Louis XVIII light type
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1815 |
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| Thickness | 3.0 mm |
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| Mint | BB Strasbourg, France (?-1870) |
| Mintage | 1815 BB - No point - 1,266,920 1815 BB - No point, no accent on `DECIME` - 1815 BB - Point after `DECIME` and after `1815` - |
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The "light type" designation reflects a deliberate weight reduction from the earlier Napoleonic décime standard — the Restoration government needed to economize on bronze coinage while simultaneously distancing itself, administratively if not always visibly, from imperial-era monetary infrastructure. Louis XVIII returned from Ghent in July 1815 after the Hundred Days, and the mints wasted little time issuing coinage that reasserted Bourbon authority. Production was confined to a single year, and surviving examples in any grade above Fine are scarce relative to the type's apparent mintage figures.