chrislamb Posted November 29, 2006 Posted November 29, 2006 Attached are images of a coin I found a while back, and would like you opinions on it..ThanksChris Quote
chrislamb Posted November 29, 2006 Author Posted November 29, 2006 The coin is quite large at 3cm in diameter. Quote
TomGoodheart Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 Sorry, must have missed this Chris.Un Decime is 10 Centimes, 1/10 French Franc. The legend on the back reads L'An 5. I haven't researched this but perhaps it's a revolutionary dating, since the link gives the date as 1796/97 which ties in with the National Constituent Assembly (1789-1791).Hope that gets you started!Richard Quote
Rob Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 Sorry, must have missed this Chris.Un Decime is 10 Centimes, 1/10 French Franc. The legend on the back reads L'An 5. I haven't researched this but perhaps it's a revolutionary dating, since the link gives the date as 1796/97 which ties in with the National Constituent Assembly (1789-1791).Hope that gets you started!RichardIt's KM137.1 if you have Krause & Mishler. The A below L'AN 5 is for the Paris mint. Quote
Guest Guest Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Thanks very much!!! You lot are the fountain of all knowledge *worship* (or at least the internet is! ) Quote
chrislamb Posted January 13, 2007 Author Posted January 13, 2007 didn't realise that under un decime it was L'an 5 I thought it was L'ans; never realised that there was so much info on the coin!!! Quote
chrislamb Posted January 13, 2007 Author Posted January 13, 2007 http://www.napoleonicmedals.org/coins/franl5-2.htm it looks like it was minted on the 24 october 1796, in Paris Quote
TomGoodheart Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Yup. The internet sure is wonderful! Glad you found out some more Chris! Quote
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