France 1961 5 centimes
The second specimen was lot 20159 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (Newport Beach, CA, January 2021), where it sold for $2,640. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRANCE. Gold 5 Centimes Piefort, 1961. Paris Mint. NGC PROOF-64 Ultra Cameo. Boldly contrasted with very faint hairlines that limit the assigned grade. From the Naples Bay Collection." It is a common date of a type struck at the Paris mint 1961-64. Struck in large numbers in the early sixties, it was replaced in 1966 with the aluminum bronze Lagriffoul type. As a subdivision of the new franc, it was worth one hundred of the five centimes of the French Third Republic.
Recorded mintage: 39,000,000 plus 20 in gold.
Specification: 3.4 g, stainless steel, 19 mm diameter, plain edge.
Catalog reference: F.124/3, KM 927, (gold) KM-PE337.
- Gadoury, Victor, Monnaies Françaises, 1789-2019, 24me éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 2019.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Prieur, Michel, and Laurent Schmitt, Le Franc 10: Les Monnaies, Paris: Éditions les Chevau-légers, 2014.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The January 2021 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Oro del Nuevo Mundo and Matt Orsini Collections, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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