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<p>[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 4060381, member: 42034"]Thanks for the comments. Yes I still have it. The early French coins were beautifully and well made and they put a lot of pride into their coinage. I don't know enough about the history of the times to know why the French should be able to continuously strike large silver ecus & minor coins at a plethora of mints all during the 1700's and England should have such a hard time striking very few silver crowns and almost no half crowns, and shillings during that whole period. What did the people use as currency? The rest of Europe apparently had little problem striking silver tho as we can tell from the abudence of thalers during that era.</p><p><br /></p><p>Immediately following this were the famous Union et Force crowns of the 5 man French Directory, which replaced the Convention. Phillippe Theret, who specialized in these pieces told me that I was cursed in my inability to ever get one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 4060381, member: 42034"]Thanks for the comments. Yes I still have it. The early French coins were beautifully and well made and they put a lot of pride into their coinage. I don't know enough about the history of the times to know why the French should be able to continuously strike large silver ecus & minor coins at a plethora of mints all during the 1700's and England should have such a hard time striking very few silver crowns and almost no half crowns, and shillings during that whole period. What did the people use as currency? The rest of Europe apparently had little problem striking silver tho as we can tell from the abudence of thalers during that era. Immediately following this were the famous Union et Force crowns of the 5 man French Directory, which replaced the Convention. Phillippe Theret, who specialized in these pieces told me that I was cursed in my inability to ever get one.[/QUOTE]
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