Av. (fleurs-de-lis) KAROLVS: FRANCORV: REX. Shield of France (with a solid dot between the two upper fleurs-de-lis?).
Rev. (lily) SIT: NOME: DNI: BENEDICTV. Cross flanked by two small crowns and two lilies; solid dot beneath the lower arm.
Dy.- (possibly 377G) - L.-; Billon - 2.17 g and 2.3 g - 25 mm - 6 h
With two old handwritten labels: 7th issue “unreported” and 7th issue “unpublished.”
Uncataloged issue with initial lilies: these white guenars correspond to the half-guenar of the 7th issue (Dy.378G - L.406a). The “O”s are round; there is a dot beneath the cross on the reverse, but the dot (likely present) between the lilies is not visible on the obverse. With a 16th-century ring on both the obverse and reverse, but likely minted in Paris: see Dieudonné, BnF, p. 192, nos. 1063–1065 (note). Extremely rare. The two examples: Very Fine to Very Good.
Regarding this issue, also known in the “florette” variant, Dieudonné notes: “One might think that these ‘florettes’ belong to the workshops of Tournai and Saint-Quentin, but the evidence is so conclusive that one must admit there was an issue in Paris with an exceptional variant. Moreover, Tournai and Saint-Quentin would have the long ‘0’.”
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