French pattern coinage

Dennis88

Anybody else likes them? Here's on I've had for seven years but just had it photographed by Todd/Blue62Vette:



Dennis

JCMhouston

Very nice, I keep thinking about these, but I already collect too much.

mudskippie

Yep love them, I purchase a few Essai/Piefort specimen every year.

IloiloKano

That's a beauty!

Can someone translate what's on the reverse for us uni-lingual neanderthals?

If that's a pattern, what was the design that was eventually adopted?

Dennis88

<< <i>That's a beauty!

Can someone translate what's on the reverse for us uni-lingual neanderthals?

If that's a pattern, what was the design that was eventually adopted? >>



Freedom-Equality-Brotherhood

I suspect that these patterns were mostly created for collectors. Somebody else, however, has to educate me on that as well. Regu,ar 10 centimes are of a complete different size and composition.

Dennis

krueger

Around December 2000 I believe Stacks auctioned off quite a few of the french patterns .

I have a one from that sale its a 20 cent with a double reverse, the same reverse on both sides!

Krueger

Bjorn

They are beautiful coins, and I wish I had the cash to collect them... Most originate from a great design contest the French Second Republic held in 1848 to decide on the obverse/reverse of the new coins following the overthrow of the monarchy (the restored monarchy, not the ancien regime). There are literally hundreds of design, metal, denomination combinations, mostly detailed in Mazard.

Dennis88

<< <i>They are beautiful coins, and I wish I had the cash to collect them... Most originate from a great design contest the French Second Republic held in 1848 to decide on the obverse/reverse of the new coins following the overthrow of the monarchy (the restored monarchy, not the ancien regime). There are literally hundreds of design, metal, denomination combinations, mostly detailed in Mazard. >>



Interesting I requested the two volumes of Mazard from the ANA library. These are so interesting yet still affordable. The other ones I really like are German patterns, although I don't own any right now. Still, US patterns are my favorites, probably because there is so much documentation out there.

Dennis

Dennis88

Anyone else got one to show?

pruebas

I also collect some of these, but unfortunately, photography is not my forte so I have nothing to show at the moment.

A French dealer told me the best reference for French essais (supposedly better than Mazard set, but I don't know) is the 1989 edition of the Victor Gadoury book. He said that for some reason, all the essais are in that edition but not any of the newer editions.

For German patterns, there are two references. One (the Schaaf book) is available from our own Ron Guth. Check out his website. The other is an auction catalog from a large, complete collection, but the name escapes me at the moment.

JCMhouston

I just noticed there are a bunch of French patterns on ebay, from a Hong Kong seller, with no returns.

lordmarcovan

I wish I'd kept the pair I had. Or at least this one. Alas, I don't even have good pictures of it.

I'm surprised yours is graded MS rather than proof? Both of mine were in old ANACS PR63 holders.

The backwards "4" was always a feature of this one that I found interesting.

7Jaguars

Hmmmm, did Morgan see these before designing the dollar?

mudskippie

WorldTypeSet

I've got one just like this one, housed in an old ANACS MS66 slab.


Anybody else likes them? Here's on I've had for seven years but just had it photographed by Todd/Blue62Vette:

Very nice.


The backwards "4" was always a feature of this one that I found interesting.

I like it