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- Date
- 1720
- Obverse
- In area, PARISER-/ WEST-INDISCH-/ LOUISIANISCHER/ COMPAGNIE/ ACTIEN/ ODER/ STAATS-BILLETS/ IEDES A/ 500. LIVRES OD. 166 2/3 TH./ VON I. IAN. 1717./ MIT IV PRO CENT ZU/ VERINTERESSIREN/ AO. 1720 AUT. 2 PR. 100 ("Shares or certificates of stock of the Parisian West Indian-Louisiana Company were valued at 500 livres each, or 166 2/3 thalers, on January 1, 1717, and yielding four per cent interest; in 1720, two shares for 100 livres"); reading around below, upside down, SIND INCONFISCABEL/ UND SEMPER FREY*/ IN FINE VIDEBITUR/ CVIVS/ TONI ("They cannot be confiscated and are always free. In the end it will be seen what is the value of this story."): legend in twenty lines
- Reverse
- MANN. SETZ. SICH. NICHT. FUR. MAASS. NOCH. ZIEL.* ("Man sets neither limits nor bounds to himself, " i.e., he puts no restraint on his desire for money); in area, DIE/ DA/ REICH/ WERDEN/ WOLLEN/ FALL. IN/ VERSUCHUNG/ I TIMOT VI V 9 10/ 1720 ("They that will be rich will fall into temptation." Timothy, Chap. VI, verses 9, 10. 1720.): legend in eleven lines
- Diameter (in mm)
- 26.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 7.18
- Reference
- Betts.not.cf.131
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