Interesting 1848 French 5-franc patterns
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I picked up two different French 5-franc patterns at the FUN show, from our own Danglen.
This, the first, is a Pn48 in an ANACS PF64 holder. I thought it was a neat design. Note the little cherubs forming her headband, and the backward "4" in the date! The coin has slightly nicer mirrors than the picture would indicate, but I am grateful to Joe/mongoose for snapping it while we were there, as he captured it better than I could with my cheapo scanner.
(Note: jpeg quality of the image had to be degraded considerably to upload it here.)
The other is a Pn72 in an ANACS PF63 holder. It has a more attractive female head but I don't have a picture of it. I thought the the rays on the obverse pf the Pn48 were cool and when I heard the prices on these, I was very pleasantly surprised. When I noticed the backward 4 on the Pn48 I had to have it.
I ended up swapping with Dan for the Pn72 the next day. It was the one that had originally caught my eye. He still has another one of these patterns left- I think the head on the obversere of it is supposed to be female, but it has a big, jowly and quite masculine looking head on the front (looks a little like George IV of England!)
I suspect these patterns are struck in white metal rather than silver, though it is hard to tell, and Krause does not say.
This, the first, is a Pn48 in an ANACS PF64 holder. I thought it was a neat design. Note the little cherubs forming her headband, and the backward "4" in the date! The coin has slightly nicer mirrors than the picture would indicate, but I am grateful to Joe/mongoose for snapping it while we were there, as he captured it better than I could with my cheapo scanner.
(Note: jpeg quality of the image had to be degraded considerably to upload it here.)
The other is a Pn72 in an ANACS PF63 holder. It has a more attractive female head but I don't have a picture of it. I thought the the rays on the obverse pf the Pn48 were cool and when I heard the prices on these, I was very pleasantly surprised. When I noticed the backward 4 on the Pn48 I had to have it.
I ended up swapping with Dan for the Pn72 the next day. It was the one that had originally caught my eye. He still has another one of these patterns left- I think the head on the obversere of it is supposed to be female, but it has a big, jowly and quite masculine looking head on the front (looks a little like George IV of England!)
I suspect these patterns are struck in white metal rather than silver, though it is hard to tell, and Krause does not say.
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What exactly is "white metal"? I've heard that before for all sorts of coins but don't have a clue as to what it means
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A name given to a range of alloys usually containing antimony alloyed with tin, copper or lead to produce a white silvery metal used in the manufacture of medallions.
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