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left France for Quebec, carrying dozens of military and political VIPs and a fortune in gold and silver, but sank near the end of the voyage. In 1961, a discovery of cannons scattered on the sea bottom alerted Alex Storm, a diver working part-time on a fishing trawler from
Louisbourg. Storm carefully
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had made 22 carats the de facto international standard for gold coinage a century earlier. Royal edicts had set the official values of his gold coins so low that it was profitable to export them. Since they were still made by hand, cheaters could shave bits of gold from the edges of the coins before
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Verso: The early coinage of Louis XV has a variety of rapidly changing reverse types. When the value of the Louis dâor was stabilized in 1726, a reverse type with the coats of arms of France and
Navarre in two ovals was adopted. This reverse earned the coin the nickname "Louis aux lunettes", i.e.
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The double louis has a size of 28.5 mm and a weight of 13.47 g. The quatruple louis has a size of 35 mm and a weight of 26.88 g. The 10 louis has a size of 44 mm and a weight of 66.87 g. One of these was sold in 2012 for 210,000 euros, which makes it the most expensive French coin of
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commemorated this by creating a 1/20th ounce gold coin. The coin was released in
October 2006 and was composed of 99.99% pure gold. Its face value was one Canadian dollar and had a limited mintage of 10,000 coins. This numismatic coin, named the Gold Louis, had a weight of 1.555 grams and a
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became Louis XV's chief magistrate in 1726, France returned to a policy of sound money and the mintage of the Louis dâor returned to normal levels. The weight of the Louis dâor was now increased to 8.1580 g and gold content of 0.2405 troy oz, it was revalued at 20
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was minted between 1785 and 1792 and had a dimension of 23 mm, and a weight of 7.6490 g, a fineness of 0.917, and gold content of 0.2255 troy oz. The double louis has a size of 28.5 mm and a weight of 15.26 g.
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The 1640 issue of Louis dâor contained five denominations: a half Louis and a one, two, four, and eight Louis. All subsequent issues through 1793 were only denominated in half, one, and two Louis.
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in 1640. The name derives from the depiction of the portrait of King Louis on one side of the coin; the French royal coat of arms is on the reverse. The coin was replaced by the
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mapped the wreckage of the
Chameau to locate the treasure compartment. In 1965, after several years of searching, the gold was found and the mystery of the treasure was solved.
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