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Posted 04/21/2016 4:34 pm
I'll pull this up again, since it's pretty recent.
I picked up a fairly common BG-519 recently, initialed DERI. The 1.2 gram weight is right and it looks like ex-jewelry on the edges. I dug into engraver Deriberpie's background and found out that he and Nouizillet were arrested for counterfeiting. I also found a reference to one Deriberpe in the French Union of Bronze Workers, active 1842-44 in Paris, and involved in litigation. Whether it's the same person or not, the time and skills match. Breen and Gillio do not cite any French sources.
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/te...es.docx..pdf
I hope to get an expert authentication on the BG-519 at a coin show in the next couple days.
I picked up a fairly common BG-519 recently, initialed DERI. The 1.2 gram weight is right and it looks like ex-jewelry on the edges. I dug into engraver Deriberpie's background and found out that he and Nouizillet were arrested for counterfeiting. I also found a reference to one Deriberpe in the French Union of Bronze Workers, active 1842-44 in Paris, and involved in litigation. Whether it's the same person or not, the time and skills match. Breen and Gillio do not cite any French sources.
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/te...es.docx..pdf
I hope to get an expert authentication on the BG-519 at a coin show in the next couple days.
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