Coin ID When And How Many

Beautiful coin ageka.

Reminds me of the 50 FR solver coin I purchased in the last month.

Mine can't compate with yours, being 112 years newer, but it is attractive.

The only book I have for World coinage is Krause. I cannot find any commemoratives or silver that were reissued with the original date. They all seem to have modern dates. Perhaps yours is a modern forgery or commemorative medal similar to the US Franklin Mint or similar that produce rare US coins in proof or uncirculated form and sell them as reproductions.

I agree. There's nothing of the sort listed in Krause; it does list some uniface trials of the 1855 and 1862 dates. It could be a test piece to try out the dies, but why would they test the dies with a metal (silver) tougher than the one the dies are intended for (gold)? Test pieces are usually done in a softer metal, like lead.

Do the French mint have a reputation for "novodels" or made-to-order restrikes?

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Originally posted by gxseries

That is indeed interesting. How expensive is an original gold coin Ageka?

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A gold 100 FF Laureate Napoleon III 1866 BB would go around 1000 euro give or take 300 euro depending on the "look" of the coin

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The french mint or Monnaie de Paris has a reputation for cranking out silver and gold in limited series at high prices all official coins
( like five ounce gold coins and 1 kilogram silvercoins )
They also do medals
As far as I know they have never handled "orders" for commercial strikes or restrikes

The quality of the silver 100 FF makes me think it is struck with Monnaie de Paris dies
Since it has no euro denomination it is pre 2002 and since it is very uncolored it probably was struck between 1990 and 2002
It may be an abandonned series that was supposed to be goldplated

In Krause world gold coins at the end of France there is a page
P for Piedfort and PE with Essai
In that section they have eg a silver 50 FF hercules but struck in gold Krause wrongly reports there are 54 of these
( I know better since I got an original certificate saying there are 100 ) So the Monnaie de Paris seems to do coins as a rarity in other materials but the 1866 date bothers me since they seem to use the real date and I cannot conceive this coin being really from 1866

I know ntional collectors Mint makes copies of US coins that are very good copies and are tribute coins and I think that is what susan was talking about. I dont know if anyone makes coins from that country like that or not but if so it would still look like the original even though it was with a different metal than was used in the original. They do it at National Collectors Mint that way because they are mass produced and its just alot cheaper to make and for the people buying the coin. not saying I think your coin is a copy but just stating that it can be done that they look exactly like the original even though they arent legal tender and not in the original metal. If you want to look at what I am refering to you can go to ncmint.com

Awesome coin there Ageka!!
Can't believe gold is 1000 euros!!

Upon establishing the coins data versus a real gold coin from 1867
it was found that the real coin is 35.2 mm at 32.26 gram and my
coin is 35.4 mm at 16.71 gram

Now this is really weird because my coin has a ribbed rim and the real gold one has a flat rim with text
And my coin has to be copper that was silverised

Silverising was sometimes done to teststrikes ( I think I read they die this with teststrikes of the 2 francs coin )

Carl found
krause worldcoins 1801/1900 TS 25 and TS 26 but those teststrikes he says have another year 1862

Any ideas ?