Help again? Mintage on the 5 francs L'an 13?

Weiss

Howdy once again! You all were kind enough to help me out with some info about the 5 francs I'm giving to a friend who is supposed to receive recognition from the French gov't for his work on Napoleonic warfare and history. He is Dr. John A. Lynn of the University of Illinois, his newest book Battle: A History of Combat and Culture was released in June.

I believe the Standard Catalog shows the mintage at 1.8 million pieces, but this website shows a mintage considerably smaller:

http://www.d-stuart.demon.co.uk/France.KM.662.10.html

I'd trust the catalog more than a website, but...

Anyone know for sure?

lordmarcovan

Courtesy link

Dunno what to tell you. I'm like you- I would tend to trust the Krause before a website, but the opposite has been known to happen, sometimes. Krause isn't infallible, but I suppose they're still the standard.

I'm only a generalist and don't specialize a whole lot.

tbirde56

My '96 Krause shows the An13 with M mintmark (KM-155a.10) with a mintage of 1.547 million. The French 'Redbook' by Gadoury shows 1,546,838 minted.

elverno

The LeFranc website shows 1,546,082 as the mintage and my 1970 Die Franzosischen Munzen by Ernst uses the Redbook numbers.

Weiss

Thanks, guys!

Wouldn't you know it? I wavered on wanting to find a piece that used the revolutionary calendar vs. a later piece, and decided an early Napoleonic type with the revolutionary calendar would be the most interesting to a non-collector. Come to find out that the pieces made just after my piece (from 1807 on) were minted on machines made of the brass of canon captured by Napoleon at Austerlitz, a pivotal battle! Doh! How perfect would that have been for a professor of Napoleonic warfare?!

Goes to show you; you can never do too much research!