French Guiana 1846-A 10 centimes

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Ponterio sale 169, lot 22159
photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 22159 in Ponterio sale 169 (Baltimore, November 2012), where it sold for $122. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRENCH GUIANA. 10 Centimes, 1846-A. NGC MS-63." France issued coinage for her colonies only sporadically during the nineteenth century. Ten centimes were issued for French Guiana in 1818 and 1846 only at a time when no base metal coinage was being minted in France. This type is not expensive in the SCWC but is seldom seen.

Recorded mintage: 1,400,000.

Specification: 2.5 g, billon.

Catalog reference: KM-A2; Gad-9.

Source:

  • Gadoury, Victor, and George Cousinié, Monnaies Coloniales Françaises, 1670-1988, 2me Éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 1988.
  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • [1]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 169: The November 2012 Baltimore Auction, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers, LLC, 2012.

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