foreign coins in use in canada
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:36 pm
In the colonies of the new worlds a lot of foreign coins where in use.
I invite you to post in this topic your favorite foreign coin that was in use in the colonies.
Here 2 coins from the french colonies;
Double denier tournois 1642;
denier tournois 1653;
Why denier tournois
In those age in France they was 2 workshop that was strucking coins,
One in Paris denier parisis
One in tour denier tournois
5 deniers tournois = 4 deniers parisis
2 deniers tournois = 1 double tournois
In france the référence was the gold écu;
1 ecu = 3 livres
1 livre = 20 sous
1 sou = 12 denier
I invite you to post in this topic your favorite foreign coin that was in use in the colonies.
Here 2 coins from the french colonies;
Double denier tournois 1642;
denier tournois 1653;
Why denier tournois
In those age in France they was 2 workshop that was strucking coins,
One in Paris denier parisis
One in tour denier tournois
5 deniers tournois = 4 deniers parisis
2 deniers tournois = 1 double tournois
In france the référence was the gold écu;
1 ecu = 3 livres
1 livre = 20 sous
1 sou = 12 denier