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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silvereagle82, post: 604055, member: 1700&quot;]Gabriel,</p><p>First ... Welcome to Cointalk !</p><p><br /></p><p>Well Gabriel you correctly identified the coin as Austrian but incorrectly the Country of Austria.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin you have there is an </p><p>Italian States: Lombardy-Venetia </p><p>1840V Sovrano</p><p>KM# C21.3 / Fr.482 (Friedberg list it under Austria)</p><p>Weight: 11.33g @ .9000 gold = .3278 oz. AGW</p><p>List value is XF=$1500 / UNC=$3000</p><p><br /></p><p>These northern regions (duchies) of Italy were ruled by the French from 1805-1814 under the Kingdom of Napoleon and after his fall these areas were awarded to Austria from 1814-1859 as the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia. Thus the Austria design of the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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