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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 26053107, member: 77639&quot;]The label is pictured below.&nbsp;&nbsp; Although Mazur is an excellent reference on French coins, Essais Monetaires &amp; Pieforts Française by Taillard and Arnaud is better for patterns (essais) and pieforts.&nbsp; The book is abbreviated GEM because Gadoury is the publisher.&nbsp; This coin is MAZ-2573 and GEM-111.P3.&nbsp; Neither Mazur or Taillard &amp; Arnaud lists the coin as a proof (flan bruni).&nbsp; In their world, a coin is either a proof or a circulation strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you go to the NGC Census and look under France - Essais &amp; Pieforts, you’ll see that all of them are considered MS coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; NGC is probably following the lead of Mazur and Taillard &amp; Arnaud.</p><p><br /></p><p>NGC lists only two of these coins, this one and one graded MS62.&nbsp; PCGS lists 5 graded (all SP).&nbsp; So, it’s quite a rare coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1657178[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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