Luxembourg 1946 25 centimes
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This specimen was lot 1001 in Steve Album Auction 52 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $480. The catalog description[1] noted, "LUXEMBOURG: Charlotte, 1919-1964, AR 25 centimes, 1946, Essai at left side of obverse, off-metal strike in silver, mintage of only 500 pieces, a stunning reflective specimen state example! PCGS graded Specimen 67." The regular bronze issue of 1946-47 (KM 45) is common. Essais are known in gold, silver (shown here), bronze, similor (brass), lead and aluminum.
Recorded mintage: 1,000,000 in bronze plus 500 in silver.
Specification: regular issue: 2.5 g, bronze, 19 mm diaeter; this essai: 3.15 g, silver.
Catalog reference: KM 45; this essai: KM-E44, L-384A-2, Wictor-E105.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Dustin Wagner, Auction 52, featuring the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection and the Almer H. Orr III Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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