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Auction: 7023 - The Glenister Collection of British Coins & other Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 232

x France, Napoleon III (1852-71), essai 20-Francs, 1862 (2), in gilt bronze, two uniface strikings, one obverse, one reverse, the designs and rims gilt, the blank reverses plain, in bronze: laureate head right, large e and designer´s name below date, rev. arms on crowned mantle dividing value over date, as the currency issue but e replacing mint-mark and plain edges (cf Fr.584-5; KM.TS21 & 22; cf. VG.3617), brilliant, FDC, rare (2) Estimate £ 300-450 provenance: The obverse from Leu, 24-5 October, 1994, lot 744 (part) The second bought World Coins, Tokyo

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