This French coin is confusing me

ajaan

I don't see any Rooster marks in Krause. Perhaps I'm not looking in the correct spot? Or maybe it isn't a rooster. Also, is something funky going on with the 8? or is this normal.

coinkat

It does look as if it is an overdate. As for the Rooster, it looks like a Rooster

ajaan

Does it look like the A may also be struck twice?

coinkat

can't tell from the scan... it seems possible

MrEureka

The mintmark combo is listed in Le Franc.

It's also possible that this is an overdate.

DCH

Could that be an AA(Metz) mintmark? Krause lists a L'AN 8/6 overdate for Metz.



Further research shows the two A's are normally well separated for the AA mintmark.

My 19th century krause lists the rooster privy from the Paris mint, L'AN 6 thru 1821. Strange that its not shown in the 18th century edition.

ozzysdad

Don,

How about a pic of the Obverse? I know when i was looking for info on the 8 sided medal, I ran across some pattern coin's by Lorthior that were never adopted for circulation. If that is what you have, might be worth quite a bit. I'll see if i can find the site again. I found it by typing , Pierre-Joseph Lorthior, it was a French website, I had to hit the translate, but it had really good info, and price's were high.......

MrEureka

You'll find a better quality coin illustrated at this site. It is identified as an 8/5 and an A/B.

ajaan

Here's the obverse:



Thanks MrEureka, I beginning to think this may be the 8/5 and A/B coin. Is this scarcer than a normal coin?

MrEureka

Is this scarcer than a normal coin?

Thank you for thinking that there's better than a snowball's chance in hell that I would know, but I don't. Sorry.