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1991
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FRANCE - FRANCE
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1991
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FRANCE - FRANCE
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000
Voluntary lot
Description
FRANCE - FRANCE
Third Republic (1870–1940). 25-centime trial coin, Patey 2nd type, lobed edge, in nickel, 1908, Paris.
Obverse: RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE. Draped and cuirassed bust of the Republic facing left, wearing the cap of Liberty adorned with two laurel branches; signed A. PATEY.
Reverse: 25 CENTIMES and ESSAI. Lictor’s fasces on a two-branched oak branch, below (variant) (date) (variant).
GEM.63.5; Nickel – 5.82 g – 25 mm – 6 h
Top Pop: this is the only graded specimen!
From the MDC 5 auction, lot no. 663.
NGC MS 67 (8772188-041).
Special strike on a twelve-lobed nickel blank. In its mint state with the strike texture barely visible. Extremely rare, with only one specimen recorded by Taillard and Arnaud! Mint state.
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