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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8354706, member: 128351"][ATTACH=full]1482749[/ATTACH]</p><p>This Constantine coin, for example. I found it in an old wallet that belonged to my great-grandfather (who never collected coins). This coin was just among small change of the late 19th and early 20th c. At this time in France coins in circulation were very diverse because of the "Union Latine" system - an ancestor of the €uro. You could have French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, Greek and even Argentinian coins, all had the same value and circulated together. In the countryside, lack of small change incited people to use old 17th c. "double tournois" and even old 4th c. LRB as 1 or 2 centimes coins. They were accepted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8354706, member: 128351"][ATTACH=full]1482749[/ATTACH] This Constantine coin, for example. I found it in an old wallet that belonged to my great-grandfather (who never collected coins). This coin was just among small change of the late 19th and early 20th c. At this time in France coins in circulation were very diverse because of the "Union Latine" system - an ancestor of the €uro. You could have French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, Greek and even Argentinian coins, all had the same value and circulated together. In the countryside, lack of small change incited people to use old 17th c. "double tournois" and even old 4th c. LRB as 1 or 2 centimes coins. They were accepted.[/QUOTE]
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