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fyimo Valued Member United States 245 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 1:16 pm Yesterday in the mail this beauty arrived and I really think it's a beautiful coin. It's a France 1900 10 Centimes and the scans don't do this coin justice as it has tons of original luster and great color. Edited by fyimo 01/23/2010 1:21 pm Report this Post to the Staff

Archraz Pillar of the Community United States 3499 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 2:34 pm fyimo- Nice! I totally agree that these are great-looking coins. For some very odd reason, which I still have yet to determine the cause of, French coins have always been very under-appreciated in most corners of globe...including in France. Yes, French coins are some of the "slowest" (I have seen this term applied to coins that are not going to rapidly appreciate in value in the near future) coins of Western Europe. So you can sometimes find coins of this type in in fairly nice grades in dealers' junk boxes. Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 2:54 pm This series is one of the nicest looking coins that France minted. Report this Post to the Staff
maudry Pillar of the Community Luxembourg 588 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 4:40 pm Congratulations for this very nice coin! After my home country coins, French coins are my very favorites. This is indeed one of the most beautiful series of the Francs period and there are many nice coins. Report this Post to the Staff
thq Pillar of the Community United States 3343 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 6:27 pm Beautiful! We need to get Liberty back on US coinage again. "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire Report this Post to the Staff
snowman Pillar of the Community United States 1840 Posts	Posted 01/24/2010 10:22 am One of my favorite French designs too. Does anyone else have trouble finding well struck versions of these coins? Report this Post to the Staff
swamperbob Pillar of the Community United States 5362 Posts	Posted 01/24/2010 7:19 pm fyimo - I agree that the French issues of that period are very attractive. I always pull them out of junk boxes. I don't know why they lag behind in popularity. Perhaps they made too many, Perhaps it is because all the original dies still exist and high grade copies can be restruck. But one thing you can say for certain is that the French die makers have always been at the top of the game. They have comparably few die erros and clearly their minting techniques were better than the US. I know they made dies and equipment for less technilogically developed countries like Mexico. Report this Post to the Staff
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