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Carambole

A name given to the silver Ecu of eighty Sols issued by Louis XIV in 1686 for Flanders. The reverse has a crowned shield with the quartered arms of France and Burgundy. There were also struck divisions consisting of halves, quar- ters, eighths, and sixteenths.


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