Définition

• The name given in Turkey to the piece of five Sols or half Ecu, struck at Trevoux, Dombes, in Burgundy, in 1650. It bears the youthful portrait of Mlle. Anna Maria Louisa d 'Or- leans, and was used as a jewel or decoration.

  The type was also extensively imitated in Italy under the name of the Luigino (q.v.). Conf. also Blanchet, Nouveau manuel de numismatique, 1890 (i. 374)

La source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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