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French Coin Silver Content Dates

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I can't seem to find the dates for the silver content of French coin (eg pre 1920)

thanks in advance
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The only two fairly common ones that old are the 1 and 2 franc 1870-1920 coins.

Prior to that and the coin is going to be worth more as a collectible than silver melt.

This site may be useful: http://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coi...n_coin=16864

It's a listing for a silver Jeton, but below that there are links to basically every french coin ever.
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20c, 50c, 1F and 2F: .900 silver to 1863, then .835 silver to 1920.

5F remained .900 silver up to the last circulation issue in 1878.

The 1928-1939 10F and 20F coins were .680 silver.

The 1960-1969 5F were .835 silver; silver 10F, 50F and 100F coins of the Fifth Republic were .900 silver.
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Thank you so much to both of you especially NumisRob
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If any one has a website with info like NumisRob please let me know as I'm collecting that information. Thanks in advance
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CurrencyDebasement was an excellent website for looking up coin compositions from any country. Unfortunately, it's been offline for a month or so now.
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thanks Sap I had come across that site when it was active before maintenance and is pain trying to find one as good as it 'if' there is one
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