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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 3696057, member: 99642&quot;]I just read the coin to know it was France and which King, but I do like ALL of the info also. I use ngc coins lookup all the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, Louis the 16th was King at the French Revolution and lost his head on the guillotine along with his wife Marie Antoinette. She was famous for, when told &quot;the people have no bread&quot;, replying &quot;Well, let them eat cake.&quot;.</p><p>Actually what she said was &quot;Let them eat <i>brioche.&quot;, </i>which is a bakery item somewhere between bread and cake.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was her and her husband&#039;s incessant greed that caused the French Revolution.</p><p>She was obsessed with jewels and jewelry, and he was constantly spending the nations wealth on her jewels and his own desire for more and larger palaces.</p><p>Look at pictures of the Palace of Versailles.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Versailles" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Versailles" rel="nofollow">Palace_of_Versailles</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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