9 * 5 FRANCS 2000 SET "2000 years of coins in France" UNC in blisters RAR!!

Description: FULL SET 9 COINS 5 FRANCS IN 3 BLISTERS "2000 YEARS OF COINS IN FRANCE" VERY RAR!!! 1 BLISTER 3 COINS: 1) STATER OF THE PARISII - The stater combines a Greek iconographic figure with Celtic stylization. This gold coin was minted during the 1st century B.C. by the Parisii, the inhabitants of ancient Paris, who controlled lucrative trading on the Seine. 2) DENIER OF CHARLEMAGNE (A L'EFFIGIE) - After his coronation in Rome in 800 A.D., Emperor Charlemagne issued this new silver coin, the denier, and created a new monetary system based on a standard measure of weight: the livre (pound), worth 20 sous of 12 deniers each. In France this duodecimal system lasted until the Revolution. 3) GOLD ECU OF SAINT LOUIS - In order to compete with the foreign currency used by Venetian and Florentine merchants, King Louis IX created before the end of his reign (1270) a gold coin valued at half a tournois pound (or 10 sous). The new coin included for the first time the shield of France, a royal symbol par excellence. 2 BLISTER 3 COINS: 1) JOHN THE GOOD'S FRANC À CHEVAL - This was the first French coin to be called a "franc". It was struck in gold with a value of 1 livre tournois and issued after the liberation of King John II, who had been captured by the English. The king is shown on horseback and armed for war, an attitude reflecting his status as an independent sovereign, free (franc) of the English. 2) HENRI III's FRANC - This was the first silver coin named “franc”, probably because it had the same 1 livre tournois value as the XIVth century gold franc coin. The issue of this coin in 1575 reflected the stabilization of the silver to gold value ratio (1 to 11) for the XVIth century. 3) LOUIS XIII's LOUIS D'OR - To end the monetary disorder due to the use of foreign coins, clipped-off coins and unstable gold to silver value ratio, King Louis XIII and Richelieu brought about a complete reform of the French monetary system, and signaled the temporary substitution of the franc for the Louis. The reform was a success, notably because of the skillful execution of the design by general engraver Jean Varin. 3 BLISTER 3 COINS: 1) THE REVOLUTIONARY MARIANNE, 1795 - In 1795, the Convention Nationale entrusted the task of masterminding the post-Revolution monetary reform, with the introduction of the franc, to Augustin Dupré, Master Engraver at Monnaie de Paris. As the inventor of the first monetary effigy to be personified by a woman and designed to incarnate the new political regime in France, he decided to top the splendid features of Minerva, goddess of wisdom and beauty, with the Phrygian cap, as a symbol of the country’s new found freedom. This “Cap of Freedom” bronze coin is the precursor of the modern-day Marianne figures. 2) THE MARIANNE OF THE IIIrd REPUBLIC, 1898 - As the last Marianne to be issued in gold, created by J.C. Chaplain, under the IIIrd Republic in 1898, this coin, along with the Napoleon coin, was often found in the carefully set aside savings of the French people at the outbreak of World War One. It was the first coin to feature a cockerel, later to become the national emblem of France, on its reverse side. With the figure of Sower, also “born” in 1898, the Marianne is one of the three symbols that will appear on future French euro coins. 3) THE MARIANNE OF THE "NEW FRANC", 1962 - The coin, which jingles in the pockets of cash and every French person, was the first Marianne to be remodeled by Henri Lagriffoul under the Vth Republic. In 1962, taking its place in the “new franc” system, the new allegory introduces a vision of youthful femininity in the image of the artist’s daughter whose features then went on to appear on the 20, 10 and 5 centimes coins. Composition: Cu-Ni Diameter: 29mm Weight: 10g Mintage: 50000 sets only Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4

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