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FRANCE - LOUIS XVIII - 5 FRANCS DRESSED BUST 1815 PERPIGNAN - PCGS MS62 - TOP POP
- Condition: MS
- Grade: PCGS MS62
- Date: 1815
- Mint: Perpignan
- Metal: Silver
- Weight (g): 25
- Diameter (mm): 37
- Reference(s): Gad. 591 / F. 308
- Rarity: nc
Louis XVIII (1814-1824), 5 francs, dressed bust, 1815, struck at Perpignan.
Obverse: bust of the king left, bareheaded, in court dress with the badge of the Order of the Holy Spirit, signed TIOLIER F. on the truncation. Legend LOUIS XVIII ROI DE FRANCE. Reverse: crowned arms of France between two olive branches. Legend PIECE DE 5 FRANCS, date 1815 in exergue between the privy mark (bunch of grapes) and the mint letter. Mint letter Q (Perpignan).
Grey toning marked by a few deposits on the reverse. Mint State. Far superior to the Collection Idéale example (rated AU55 by CGB!).
Top Pop: this is the finest graded example!
Note: this 5 francs of 1815 bears Louis XVIII’s portrait in a dressed bust, the type of the early Restoration. That year, the reign was interrupted. On 20 March, Napoleon, back from Elba, returned to the Tuileries, Louis XVIII fled to Ghent, and during the Hundred Days the mints struck once more with the imperial effigy, Perpignan included. After Waterloo, the king returned, and from 1816 the dressed bust gave way to a bare head.
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