v26_1636 - PROVISIONAL GOVERNEMENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC - TUNISIA - FRENCH PROTECTORATE Lot de trois essai - piéforts : 2 francs, 1 franc et 50 centimes en bronze-aluminium 1945 Paris

PROVISIONAL GOVERNEMENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC - TUNISIA - FRENCH PROTECTORATE Lot de trois essai - piéforts : 2 francs, 1 franc et 50 centimes en bronze-aluminium 1945 Paris MS

MONNAIES 26 (2006)
Starting price : 300.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 529.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 556.00 €

Type : Lot de trois essai - piéforts : 2 francs, 1 franc et 50 centimes en bronze-aluminium

Date: AH 1364

Date: 1945

Mint name / Town : Paris

Quantity minted : 104

Metal : bronze-aluminium

Diameter : 22,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Edge : lisse

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Monnaies splendides malgré quelques petites marques de manipulation dans les champs. Les trois monnaies ont conservé tout leur brillant et leur couleur d’origine et sont recouvertes d’une très belle patine de collection

Catalogue references :

Lec.186, 242 et 296

Obverse

Obverse legend : BON POUR/ SUIVI DE LA VALEUR FACIALE.

Obverse description : entre deux palmes et au-dessus d’inscriptions arabes et du mot ESSAI.

Reverse

Reverse legend : TUNISIE.

Reverse description : au-dessus d’une couronne d’olivier, millésimes au centre, inscriptions arabes au-dessous.

Commentary

Exceptionnel lot comprenant la pièce de 2 francs (27,5 mm ; 15,72 g), celle de 1 franc (23 mm ; 8,09 g) et celle de 50 centimes (18 mm ; 3,59 g).

Historical background

PROVISIONAL GOVERNEMENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC - TUNISIA - FRENCH PROTECTORATE

In August 1950, Mohamed Lamine formed a government in which Bourguiba participated. The latter demands autonomy, then independence. He was again arrested in 1952. The arrival of Pierre Mendès France at the head of the French government, two years later, changed the situation: France agreed to negotiate with the nationalists. In a speech delivered in Carthage on July 31, he undertakes to grant internal autonomy. On March 20, 1956, a protocol abolished the Treaty of Bardo which had been signed between the Bey of Tunis and the French government on May 12, 1881 and which had established the protectorate of France over Tunisia. On March 20, 1956, Tunisia became independent. The Republic was proclaimed on July 25, 1957 and the bey abdicated..