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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GeorgeM, post: 1334622, member: 28550&quot;]I recently picked up a silver 5 Franc and am trying to learn a bit more about it. All the info that I can find seems to be for an alternate mint mark, the B/B from Strassburg:</p><p><a href="http://www.coindatabase.com/coin_detail_france.php?cdb=S210310" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coindatabase.com/coin_detail_france.php?cdb=S210310" rel="nofollow">http://www.coindatabase.com/coin_detail_france.php?cdb=S210310</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I like that site a lot, but there&#039;s no search function that I noticed. </p><p><br /></p><p>CoinWiki is missing an entry on this mint, but has the BB issue:</p><p><a href="http://www.coinfactswiki.com/wiki/France_1867-A_5_Francs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfactswiki.com/wiki/France_1867-A_5_Francs" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinfactswiki.com/wiki/France_1867-A_5_Francs</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I assume that the fineness and weight are the same, but can anyone tell me the mintage for the Paris mint (A)? Here&#039;s the best info I&#039;ve been able to find specifically on the 1867 A 5 Franc (silver):</p><p><a href="http://firstcoincompany.com/en/catalog/5-francs-napoleon-iii-1867.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://firstcoincompany.com/en/catalog/5-francs-napoleon-iii-1867.html" rel="nofollow">http://firstcoincompany.com/en/catalog/5-francs-napoleon-iii-1867.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Also, why on earth did the French make both silver and gold 5 Francs at that time? I know that the US had a bit of overlap between silver and gold $1 coins, but always assumed that was caused by availability (due to the Gold rush). Were there other countries that minted coins of the same denomination out of gold &amp; silver (or silver/nickel/copper?) at the same time?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve started putting together a page on this (as I catalog all my coins) but it is pretty incomplete:</p><p><a href="http://mycoins.co/france_5_franc_1867" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mycoins.co/france_5_franc_1867" rel="nofollow">http://mycoins.co/france_5_franc_1867</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m still trying to find the mintage number &amp; identify the mintmaster&#039;s mark. </p><p><br /></p><p>edited to add: Numista has the mintage number as 6,586,000, which is oddly higher than the BB mintage of 4,224,000. I wonder why the A mint mark seems so much thinner on the ground...</p><p><a href="http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1184.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1184.html" rel="nofollow">http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1184.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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