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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Davidschwager, post: 1276889, member: 33103&quot;]Many collectors have noticed that some US coins have French models.&nbsp; The most notable is the Walking Liberty, which was clearly modeled on the sower two franc piece first issued on 1898.&nbsp; Going back a little further, the Barber series was modeled on the French Third Republic liberty head coins issued after the revolution of 1871.&nbsp; Note especially the 50 centimes coin which is a very close match to the same-sized Barber dime.&nbsp; The May 2011 issue of COINage states, &quot;Barber was instructed that he had to use the current French head of Liberty.&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=CONFIG]140813[/ATTACH][ATTACH]140814.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>The coins of the two nations have several other similarities, mostly due to our revolutionary histories, but the two mentioned above are the cases where it is easiest to draw a line from a single French coin to a single American coin.</p><p>Do you have thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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