Guinea 1969 1000 francs

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Stack's Bowers May 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75202
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This specimen was lot 75202 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $504. The catalog description[1] noted, "GUINEA. 1000 Francs, 1969. PCGS PROOF-68 Deep Cameo. John F. & Robert Kennedy; 10th anniversary of independence series. From the Carola J. Ponterio Collection." This NCLT was struck 1969-70. The regime had this and several other NCLT's made in 1970 but has issued little coinage since.

Recorded mintage: 6,600 for 1969-70.

Specifications: 4 g, 0.900 fine gold, AGW: 0.1157 oz.

Catalog reference: Fr-4; KM-17.

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, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, May 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction: Ancient & World Coins, featuring selections from the Sydney F. Martin Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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