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| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1791-1793 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Louis XVI facing left, hair tied at the nape with a ribbon, engraved by Pierre-Benjamin Duvivier. The mint date appears in the exergue beneath the truncation. The encircling legend, commencing at approximately the 7 o'clock position, reads LOUIS XVI ROI DES FRANÇAIS with the year. The portrait is rendered in a restrained neoclassical style characteristic of the Constitutional Monarchy period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1791 BB - KM#607.1: Strasbourg - 17,783 1792 BB - KM#607.1: Strasbourg - 1792 MA - KM#607.2: Marseille - 1793 BB - KM#607.1: Strasbourg - |
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