FRANCE / CAPETIANS - FRANCE / ROYAL Louis XIII (1610-1643). Test of four louis d'or (40 livres) à la tête laurée 1640, A, Paris. Av. LVD. XIII. D. G. - FR. ET. NAV. REX. Laureate head of the King on the right, below (date). Rv. .CHRIS. - .REGN. - .VINC. - .IMP. Cross formed of eight L's, each arm crowned, with A in a heart circle, cantoned by four lilies diverging from the centre. Dy.1296 - G.60 - Kind/BnF 1469 - Drs (1987) PP4 (7 known examples) - KM.111 - Fr.408 ; Gold - 26,74 g - 35 mm - 6 h PCGS Genuine Mount Removed-XF Detail (59842941). Grooved edge. Traces of mounting with small handling marks in the fields and a slightly cleaned appearance. Very rare module. TTB. The manufacture of Gold multiples in modules of 8 or 10 louis by Jean Warin is known from two documents in the Archives Nationales, published and analysed by Fernand Arbez and Christian Charlet, Une médaille d'or de 100 livres, à l'effigie de Louis XIII, volée et restituée à Jean Warin en 1641, BSFN, mars 2014, p.66-70. Multiples of louis weighing 54g or 67.5g have been described as 8 and 10 louis d'or coins since Hoffmann's 1878 work, and have been used as such by Ciani in 1926, Duplessy in 1989 and 1999, Droulers in various editions, etc. However, for F. However, for F. Leblanc in 1690, these copies were listed as pieces de plaisir. More recently, J. Lafaurie and P. Prieur, in the unpublished volume 3 of their work, les monnaies des rois de France, consider these examples to be tests of unadopted types. Subsequently, the archival texts published by Arbez and Charlet confirm the date of these attempts, which are indeed in the hand of Jean Warin in 1640. However, these attempts at monetiform manufacture remained without legal tender. We will classify them as Essai de quatre louis (40 livres), Essai de huit louis (80 livres) or Essai de dix louis d'or (100 livres). * Following Council Directive (EU) 2022/542 of April 5, 2022, implemented in national law from 01/01/2025, buyers from within the EU have to pay 5.5% VAT on the hammer price of this lot. * Following Council Directive (EU) 2022/542 of April 5, 2022, implemented in national law from 01/01/2025, buyers from within the EU have to pay 5.5% VAT on the hammer price of this lot.