subalpine republic

STLNATS

can someone provide me with the mintages of the 5 and 20 Fr coins of year 9 of the subalpine republic? I have the mintages of year 10 (1801) but year 9 is not in the same volume of Krause.

Thanks!

Sapyx

Took a while for me to find it - for reasons known only to themselves, Krause (17th century 3rd ed.) lists it under "Piedmont Republic", with no "Subalpine Republic" in the Country Index. Here are your mintages:

silver 5 francs l'An 9: 19,000

gold 20 francs l'An 9: 2,820

Sapyx

Curious... the "history snippet" given in Krause is completely different to what the Wikipedia articles for the area say. None of the dates or names match...

"The Republic of Alba was created in 1796 as a French client republic in Piedmont before the area was annexed by France in 1801. In June 1802 a new client republic, the Subalpine Republic, was established in Piedmont and in September it was also annexed. In the congress of Vienna, the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia was restored..."

So according to Wiki, these coins shouldn't exist...

STLNATS

Thanks very much!

The client kingdoms of Nappy look like an interesting but pricy series; guess because they don't exist!

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satootoko

<< <i>So according to Wiki, these coins shouldn't exist... >>

According to Wiki a lot of things that never happened did, and even more things that happened didn't.

Somehow, I find it difficult to trust a site that opens its arms to every hacker out there, and invites them to change its content at any time.

spoon

<< <i>The client kingdoms of Nappy look like an interesting but pricy series; guess because they don't exist! >>

That would be a cool set, though some of those just don't exist in UNC.


And on Wikipedia, a recent article in the satire mag, the Onion:

Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence