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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ageka, post: 22446, member: 1485&quot;]The coin was designed by Augustin Dupré who won a competition in 1791 and royalty was out and the first republic in ( I think ; because they are now on their fitht republic and I sometimes loose count )</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: darkred">Two years earlier, in July 1791, one of the many acts to follow the end of the ancien régime, was the holding of an open competition by the French National Assembly for the post of engraver-general to the mint</span> </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://frenchcoins.tripod.com/Dupre.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://frenchcoins.tripod.com/Dupre.htm" rel="nofollow">http://frenchcoins.tripod.com/Dupre.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.napoleonicmedals.org/coins/fran91-1.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.napoleonicmedals.org/coins/fran91-1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.napoleonicmedals.org/coins/fran91-1.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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