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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 3874766, member: 102103&quot;]Found this very worn coin in the junk bin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1023641[/ATTACH]</p><p>I think it&#039;s the same as <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces54055.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces54055.html" rel="nofollow">this one</a> issued under Frédéric-Maurice.</p><p>Size is 20 mm diameter, between 2-3 grams copper.</p><p>Fortunately the &quot;Sedan&quot; and the fleur-de-lys on the reverse are mostly readable, or I would have been completely lost.&nbsp; I feel like an archeologist on these.</p><p>Sedan was an independent principality until it was annexed by France under Louis XIII a few years later than this coin in 1642 as part of the Thirty Years&#039; War.</p><p><br /></p><p>And for fun, another Sedan coin &quot;commemorating&quot; Napoleon III&#039;s loss there in the Franco-Prrussian War in 1870.[ATTACH=full]1023644[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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