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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8229290, member: 110350&quot;]As I&#039;ve mentioned before, I sold almost all of my older and more valuable (pre-Victoria, i.e. Elizabeth I - William IV) British gold coins some years ago, but still own about 20 of them -- mostly kept in a safe deposit box -- as well as one Prussian 10 marks coin and a gold $50 piece from the Bahamas. Also, within the last year I&#039;ve bought four ancient gold coins, two solidi and two aurei. (See the Ancient Coins forum, where I&#039;ve posted about all of them.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;ve never had a French gold coin before, even though my paternal grandfather was born in Paris, his parents lived there for a number of years in the 1880s on their way from Eastern Europe to the USA, and a couple of branches of my mother&#039;s family lived in Alsace for a couple of hundred years after it became part of France in 1648. Whereas my only direct connection with Great Britain is that my mother spent most of World War II there. So I finally ordered a couple. One of them has arrived. I&#039;ve wanted one of these for a while, not only because I like the design, but because Marianne was my mother&#039;s name.</p><p><br /></p><p>France, Third Republic, AU (.900 fineness) 10 Francs, 1911, Paris Mint. Obv. Laureate bust of Marianne right, wearing oak-wreath encircling Phrygian cap (cap of liberty), REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE around, initials J.C.C. in lower right field [for engraver Jules-Clément Chaplain] / Rev. Gallic rooster walking left in meadow of flowers, LIBERTE·EGALITE·FRATERNITE around, 10 - Fcs across fields; in exergue, 1911 flanked by privy marks of cornucopiae to left and torch to right (representing Mint Director and Chief Engraver, respectively). 19 mm., 3.2 g. Gadoury 1017, KM (Krause-Mishler) 846, Yeoman 65.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1446549[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I was tempted to buy a gold 20 Francs coin, which has the same design, but the nicest ones I saw (from the 1907-1914 period) are mostly restrikes, and I decided instead to buy an original coin actually struck in the year indicated, at a considerably lower price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post your French gold coins, from any period. When the rest of what I ordered arrives, I will post it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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