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1786, Royal France, Louis XVI. Beautiful Certified Gold Louis Coin. PCGS AU-55!

Mint year: 1786 Engraver: Du Vivier Mint Place: Paris (A) Mint Official: François Bernier (lyre) Mint Director: Jean Dupeyron de la Coste (heron) Condition: Certified and graded by PCGS as AU-55! Denomination: Louis d'or (Gold Louis) - 1st type, without dot after date! References: Friedberg 475, Gadoury 361, Duplessy 1707, KM-591.1. R! Material: Gold (.917) .2255 oz ASW Diameter: 24mm Weight: 7.6gm

Obverse: Bare-headed and draped bust of Louis XVI left. Legend: LUD . XVI . D . G . FR . ET NAV . REX Translated: "Louis XIV, by the grace of God king of France and of Navarre" Exergue (privy mark): Heron walking left. Reverse: Crowned arms of France and Navarre in shields. Mint initial (A) of Paris weakly struck or adjusted below. Legend: CHRS . REGN . VINC . IMPER (lyre) I786 Translated: "Christ reigns, defeats and commands"

Louis XVI or Louis-Auguste de France (Versailles, 23 August 1754 – Paris, 21 January 1793) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1793. Suspended and arrested during the Insurrection of 10 August, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of treason, and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. He was the only king of France to be executed.

Although Louis was beloved at first, his indecisiveness and conservatism led some elements of the people of France to eventually view him as a symbol of the perceived tyranny of the Ancien Régime. After the abolition of the monarchy in 1793, the new republican government gave him the surname Capet, a reference to the nickname of Hugh Capet, founder of the Capetian dynasty, which the revolutionaries wrongly interpreted as a family name. He was also informally nicknamed Louis le Dernier (Louis the Last), a derisive use of the traditional nicknaming of French kings. Today, historians and French people in general have a more nuanced view of Louis XVI, who is seen as an honest man with good intentions, but who was probably unfit for the herculean task of reforming the monarchy, and who was used as a scapegoat by the revolutionaries.

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