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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 5313171, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5">This French pattern came a bit before Christmas, but I&#039;m counting it as my sole numismatic Christmas present, and I was pretty pleasantly astonished at the gift.&nbsp; It came from Josh Z., aka [USER=17304]@kazuma78[/USER], who&#039;s been kind to me before.&nbsp; (I believe it is actually the <i>third </i>coin in my Eclectic Box collection which was a gift from him!)</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">France: bronze essai (5-centimes pattern by Barre) of Louis Phillipe I, 1840</font></font></b></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/france-bronze-essai-5-centimes-pattern-by-barre-of-louis-phillipe-i-1840.371416/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/france-bronze-essai-5-centimes-pattern-by-barre-of-louis-phillipe-i-1840.371416/"><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/5N5GrDWYSSuVcbeHGxeL_Essai-frame.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Obverse:</b> LOUIS PHILIPPE I ROI DES FRANÇAIS, laureate bust left. &quot;BARRE 1840&quot; below truncation.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Reverse:</b> REFONTE DES MONNAIES DE CUIVRE / 5 / CENT. / ESSAI; denomination within wreath.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Too bad the Stacks-Bowers images of it aren&#039;t the best.&nbsp; They were shot through the somewhat scuffy slab, as you can see.&nbsp; The toning on this thing is &quot;bonkers&quot;, if I correctly remember the word Josh used.&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="3">(Edit- no, wait- I think that was [USER=85675]@CircCam[/USER] who uses the term &quot;bonkers&quot;.&nbsp; LOL.&nbsp; Well, anyhoo...)</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fcollectivecoin.imgix.net%2FaEVGeJzS02QkUlCfjiK3_ECBDB4FC-830D-43F8-A506-659F64F344C9.jpeg&amp;hash=5f03e3f962d288f2ee4c52c84c39ba39" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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