Marriage of
(Jean)- Louis FONTENEAU
and
Louise HENRY

I am glad to offer to their American descent
a silver ECU made in the same year 1726
in the reign of LOUIS XV.

Jean-Louis had certainly a coin like this in his pocket in this time. I note that the birthname of(Jean)-Louis which was only Louis, was the same that his king. Perhaps you will place this coin in a future FONTENOT museum. This coin has been found during works in the house of my uncle when workers have dug down a new cellar under his old house in the middle of Poitiers during the year 1986. There was other coins but I keep them for my collection. I had not look at these coins since this date, and I have only made connection last week while classifing them with the date of this one and the marriage of Jean-Louis. I have found the coincidence interesting, isn't it?

I haven given it to Harold FONTENOT when I saw him during May 2000.

PHOTOS of this coin below.