What is the rarest French gold coin?

More information :
Detailed page on the 10 Louis d'Or coin: goo.gl/PnrFoU
Catalog of French royal coins: goo.gl/puoWga
Coins catalog of the 17th century: goo.gl/aWYKAP
The Golden Louis: goo.gl/Mj69gv
The biggest French gold coin: goo.gl/hzCcd9
Record sales at the Hotel Drouot: goo.gl/nWq79J
The rarest French gold coin is an exceptional Louis XIII gold Louis, dating back to 1640.
This piece is remarkable for many reasons.
First the piece has an exceptional dimension.
Its diameter is 50 millimeters.
It is composed of pure gold at 917 thousandths and weighs not less than 67,518 grams.
This equates to ten normal Louis Louis since gold Louis coins weigh 6.752 grams.
The ten Louis d'Or coin exists in 2 variants.
One presents the king with the collar draped in the antique and the other with the bare bust.
The bare bust piece has a slightly smaller diameter, 47.5 millimeters.
Even the big 100 gold coins minted in the 19th century are smaller, with a diameter of only 35 millimeters.
The monumental pieces of ten Louis d'Or are so-called pieces of pleasure.
This means that they were not intended for current traffic.
It is not known exactly how many pieces of Louis 10 were made.
These quantities are very small, maybe a few dozen pieces.
These pieces are extremely rare.
These prestigious coins as well as the other big pieces of 8 and 4 Louis d'Or are reputed to have served on the king's gaming tables.
This explains the qualifier of pieces of pleasure that is often attached to them.
The value of a single piece of ten Louis d'Or was equivalent at the time to 3 years salary of a valet in the service of a Prince.
The pieces of 10 Louis d'Or were desired by Richelieu and King Louis XIII to counter the Spain of Philip IV, who was the dominant power at the time.
Louis XIII and Richelieu wanted to create coins twice as heavy as the Spanish gold coins of 8 escudos that weighed more than 27 grams.
These coins were distributed to the Court, who used them on the king's gambling table or mounted them as pendants.
The gold coins of Louis 10 are also remarkable for their aesthetic quality and their manufacturing quality quite exceptional for the time.
It is enough to realize it to compare the pieces of ten Louis to the pieces of 8 escudos.
The pieces of ten Louis d'Or were created on the occasion of the reform of the monetary system of 1640.
Until that date the French gold coins, the gold crowns, were made by hammer, according to the ancient techniques inherited from the Middle Ages.
The pieces were therefore irregular, they had an artisanal appearance.
The new Louis d'Or are struck with a new technique, the striking on the pendulum.
This mechanical manufacturing technique that allowed to produce better quality pieces was known since the 16th century.
But the Mint's extremely conservative workers had opposed the mechanical manufacture of the coins.
The creation of the new Louis d'Or was an opportunity to show the superiority of the production of pendulum parts.
It would have been impossible to manufacture such large pieces with the old manufacturing techniques.
Finally, note that the Louis d'Or bear the effigy of the King remarkably executed by the engraver Jean Varin.
This coin has long been the largest and heaviest French gold coin ever coined.
Today, however, the Monnaie de Paris is able to manufacture gold coins of 85 millimeters in diameter that weigh 1 kilo.
The pieces of 10 Louis d'Or are an exceptional technical and aesthetic success of the time.
They show the ambition of the French power, which will become in the eighteenth century the first world power.
The value of these rare and exceptional currencies reaches new heights today.
Whenever one of these pieces is offered for sale, prices fly away.
It is a piece of Louis XIII Louis ten sold in November 2014 which holds the record of the most expensive French coin.
This coin was sold at an auction at the Hotel Drouot for 298750 euro.
Record to beat!

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