1658-A Sizain Gadoury-84 MS (PCGS#151016)
Winter 2022 U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 1009
- 等级
- AU58
- 价格
- 28,814
- 详细说明
- Another Rare 1658 Milled Sixain
1658-A French Colonies 6 Deniers. Billon. Gadoury-84, Ciani-1978, Breen-275. AU-58 (PCGS).
28.6 grains. Beautiful golden highlights over lustrous surfaces, dark gray on the devices and lighter silver gray in the fields. Exactingly struck and ideally centered, positively choice with pristine surfaces. Struck from the same reverse die as the preceding lot but a different obverse die (this one is second semester; the previous lot is first).
Though the prior lot is graded higher, it would be impossible to locate a prettier and more attractive example of this rarity.
Additional information pertaining to this lot:
The Milled Sixains and Douzains of 1658
The inclusion of this type in the French North American canon can largely be left at the feet of Adam Shortt, who mentioned them explicitly in a long note on page 7 of his two volume collection Canadian Currency, Exchange, and Finance During the French Period, published in 1925. "In 1658," Shortt wrote, "two new coins were issued at 15 and 20 deniers, which were popularly named the sol and double sol." After conflating these coins incorrectly with the countermarked douzains of the Edict of 1640, the sols marques, Shortt noted that "considerable numbers were sent to Canada," which appears not to be the case.
In 1976, Walter Breen connected this issue to a later 1662-dated entry in Shortt (page 17, note 2), though there's no reason to think that document intended this specific issue preferentially over all the other billon coinage then circulating in Canada (in fact, the use of the term sol marque suggests this issue wasn't intended at all). Bob Vlack probably got closer to the truth than either Shortt or Breen in his 2004 An Illustrated Catalogue of the French Billon Coinage in the Americaswhen he wrote "this issue is mentioned here only for completeness and is not considered a coinage of New France." In truth, the 1658 douzains would have been covered under the post-1658 Canadian revaluation that covered all douzains. Undoubtedly some made it to Canada, their desirability bolstered by the crying-up by the colonial administration.
Provenance: From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex John Agre and Dave Wnuck (Coin Rarities Online), via Jeff Rock, November 2006.
PCGS# 151016.
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