France 1849-A 20 francs Fr-566

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Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 74842
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This specimen was lot 74842 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $840. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRANCE. Republic. 20 Francs, 1849-A. Paris Mint. NGC AU-55. Hailing from the first year of this brief, three-year type, this example boasts brilliant, honey gold surfaces with gentle luster. Boldly struck, with nigh negligible signs of circulation." This type, issued during the Second Republic, was minted at Paris only during 1849-51. It was superseded by the twenty francs "Louis-Napoleon". There is also a rather scarce gold ten francs struck 1850-51 featuring the same bust of Cérès. It is not as rare as the mintage suggests; Le Franc comments, "la fréquence d'apparition indique une frappe plus importante que celle enregistrée officiellement, probablement de l'ordre de 300,000 exemplaires....".

Recorded mintage: 1,298,964 ("Genie" type) plus 61,092 ("Cérès head" type).

Specification: 6.45 g, 0.900 fine gold, 21 mm diameter, lettered edge, designed by Louis Merley.

Catalog reference: Fr-566; KM-762; Gad-1059, F.529/1.

Sources:

  • Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • Gadoury, Victor, Monnaies Françaises, 1789-2019, 24me éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 2019.
  • Prieur, Michel, and Laurent Schmitt, Le Franc 10: Les Monnaies. Paris: Éditions les Chevau-légers, 2014.
  • Guilloteau, Victor, Monnaies Françaises, Colonies 1670-1942 et Metropole 1774-1942, Versailles, 1942.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection and Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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