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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rexesq, post: 253368, member: 5739&quot;]I noticed that France had several fairly recent coins with very low mintages. The 1981 5 centimes has a mintage of only 50,000, and the 1989 5 centimes is just 72,000. And there are some other dates of 2 franc coins and such, all in the 80&#039;s and 90&#039;s with low mintages. Does anyone know why this is? I can&#039;t figure why France would mint hundreds of millions of each date 5 centimes coins from 1966 to 1980, then in 1981 mint only 50,000 then from 1982- 1988 not one date has a mintage less than 130,000,000 and then the 1989 has a mintage of 72,000. And after that the only low mintages are for proof 5 centimes. </p><p>&nbsp;Does anyone know why? Is this just a typo in my 2004 krause book or something like that? Or a metal shortage maybe?</p><p><br /></p><p>rexesq[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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