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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 2008074, member: 24633&quot;]The Monnaies de Paris has been striking metals since the 16th century, and the edge imprint simply identified the Paris Mint. During this period, there had been a lot of problems with counterfeiting, especially where the use of precious metals was needed, so in 1841, the Paris Mint changed their procedure allowing the Director of the Mint to choose the symbol used on the edge during his term of office. In 1880, the Mint standardized the symbol using the cornucopia, and it was sometime in the 1960&#039;s that the Mint modified this so that the year of mintage could be identified.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe the page linked below will help you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.exonumia.com/art/art_04.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.exonumia.com/art/art_04.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.exonumia.com/art/art_04.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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