1670-A Five Sols
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The 1670 Five Sols is one of the first coins specifically struck for French colonial use in the Americas. It was struck at the Paris mint (mint mark A). A decree of February 19, 1670, obtained by Colbert, set up a special coinage for the lands of the French West India Company: silver pieces of 15 and 5 sols and copper doubles. The silver pieces were struck at Paris in the summer of 1670 from dies attributed to Jean Warin, in silver of .917 fineness, and carry the reverse legend GLORIAM REGNI TVI DICENT ("they shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom"). For more than three centuries writers gave these coins to New France, following an attribution error by Le Blanc in 1690; François Jambu's reading of unpublished French documents shows they were made for the French West Indies, although some did circulate in Canada.
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