Live auction - fmd_495981 - Essai de 1 franc en argent 1816 VG.2406

Essai de 1 franc en argent 1816 VG.2406 AU

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Estimate :	700 €
Price :	630 €
Maximum bid :	800 €
End of the sale :	11 September 2018 17:09:33
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Essai de 1 franc en argent

Date: (1860)

Date: 1816

Quantity minted : ---

Metal : silver

Diameter : 23,15 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 4,67 g.

Edge : lisse

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

De beaux reliefs mais traces de nettoyage et coups au niveau du menton

Catalogue references :

VG.2406 - Maz.639 - G.448

Obverse

Obverse legend : NAPOLEON II - EMPEREUR.

Obverse description : Tête enfantine nue à gauche.

Reverse

Reverse legend : EMPIRE (LAURIER) FRANCAIS/ 1/ FRANC/ ESSAI/ 1816.

Reverse description : entre deux branches d'olivier.

Commentary

Cet essai présente un accent au-dessus du E de ESSAI.
À noter que sur cet exemplaire, bien que la tranche soit normalement lisse, il est encore possible de deviner la légende en creux “DIEU PROTEGE LA FRANCE”, restes de la monnaie arasée utilisée pour frapper cet essai.
Ces monnaies sont apocryphes et ont été fabriquées sous le règne de Napoléon III, en Belgique peut-être afin de commémorer la mémoire du Roi de Rome, mort à 21 ans en terre étrangère.
This essay has an accent above the E in ESSAI. Note that on this example, although the edge is normally smooth, it is still possible to make out the intaglio legend “DIEU PROTEGE LA FRANCE”, remains of the leveled coin used to strike this essay. These coins are apocryphal and were made during the reign of Napoleon III, perhaps in Belgium to commemorate the memory of the King of Rome, who died at the age of 21 in a foreign land.