 Copy of the Royal Edict authorizing the issue of the 1767 sous. Printed in Paris in 1766. 10.5 x 8.25 in. 4 pages printed on 3 in black on white. Extremely Fine, untrimmed as made. Last page has coin engravings of a 1766-H dated (!) Sous. Text states ''Louis by the grace of god King of France and of Navarre, greetings: The scarcity of small change in our American Colonies has caused an increase in the cost of the simplest and most necessary things of life. We have resolved to remedy what is also an inconvenience to business and to the coinage by ordering that one sou pieces be struck for the use of our colonies....'' Mr. Ford published this edict in the Colonial Newsletter v.19, no.3 (December, 1980), seq. pp. 733-5.
Ex Richard Picker on September 25, 1980.
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