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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3723910, member: 10461&quot;]French jetons can be stunning, and that piece with the lion is no exception!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two silver ones I&#039;ve had; the first one now a &quot;bygone&quot;, and the second still in my Eclectic Box collection.</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>France: silver jeton of Louis XV, &quot;Aurora in cloud chariot&quot;, undated (ca. 1740)</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Feuardent-13203, <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/32657468" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/32657468" rel="nofollow">PCGS AU58</a>, pop. 1/0</font></font></p><p><img src="https://images.pcgs.com/TrueView/32657468_Large.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">France: silver jeton (insurance token) engraved by Ernest-Paulin Tasset, 1869</font></font></b></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Gailhouste-690, <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/35075130" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/35075130" rel="nofollow">PCGS MS63</a>, pop. 2/0.</font></font></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/WkRclOmMScaRlx3mf6Yv_35075130_Large.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=32619]@Jwt708[/USER] - I see the &quot;Kerry Wetterstrom&quot; collection is cited as the pedigree on your lion jeton.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of exonumia, and that pedigree (about which I know nothing), I just picked up this fun little 11 mm Mexican gold fantasy token in [USER=42773]@John Anthony[/USER]&#039;s latest private auction (wherein I saw some jetons quite similar to yours, but not your exact pieces).</p><p><br /></p><p>This piece is dated &quot;1865&quot; but was actually struck circa 1960s.&nbsp; So it&#039;s a fantasy, but apparently good gold, unlike some of those &quot;California&quot; fantasies from the same era.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was an inexpensive impulse bid.&nbsp; Fun.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]998366[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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