1722/1-H French Colonies Sou, or 9 Deniers. La Rochelle Mint. Martin 2.26-C.8, W-11835. Rarity-5. EF-40 (PCGS). 92.6 grains. Smooth and appealing dark brown surfaces with some subtly frosty texture as well. Small traces of orange color remain in the protected areas of the detail from a long ago cleaning from which this coin has just about fully retoned. There are no consequential marks and just minor traces of the virtually always seen natural planchet roughness and a few striations on the reverse, again, as made. Bold detail at the date and the Martin C.8 reverse features one of the clearest overdates of 13 different 1722/1 reverses. PCGS# 905886. From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex Richard Picker, April 30, 1961; Heritages sale of the W. Philip Keller Collection, October 2010, lot 3113. Plated in the Martin reference "French Coinage Specifically For Colonial America," pp. 232, 366.
