Louis d'or 1653 - Louis XIV - L'état, c'est moi

The phrase attributed to this coin's title was almost certainly never spoken by Louis XIV — historians have traced it to an 1836 publication, nearly 150 years after the Sun King's reign. The actual Louis d'or of 1653 was issued as France emerged from the Fronde, the series of civil wars that had driven the young king and his mother into temporary exile from Paris. That political rupture shaped Louis's subsequent centralization of royal authority far more than any aphorism.

This piece is a modern restrike in gold-plated silver, not a period issue.