French pattern coinage
Dennis88
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Anybody else likes them? Here's on I've had for seven years but just had it photographed by Todd/Blue62Vette:
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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?
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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.
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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!
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<< <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
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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.
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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.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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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
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