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FRANCE - LOUIS-PHILIPPE - 40 FRANCS 1834 BAYONNE - NGC MS61
- Condition: MS
- Grade: NGC MS61
- Date: 1834
- Mint: Bayonne
- Metal: Gold
- Weight (g): 12.90
- Diameter (mm): 26
- Reference(s): Gad. 1106 / F. 546
- Rarity: R2
Louis-Philippe I (1830-1848), 40 francs, 1834, struck at Bayonne.
Obverse: head of Louis-Philippe left, wearing an oak wreath whose ribbon falls on the nape, signed DOMARD F. below the neck, against the rim. Legend LOUIS PHILIPPE I ROI DES FRANÇAIS. Reverse: 40 / FRANCS / 1834 within a wreath of a laurel branch and an olive branch, tied with a ribbon. Below the knot, a star, the Engraver General’s privy mark, between the Mint Master’s privy mark and the mint letter. Mint letter L (Bayonne).
Wonderfully fresh, with only minute hairlines and minimal handling marks. Attractive lustre with nascent toning. Mint State.
Note: the 40 francs was the highest gold denomination of Louis-Philippe’s reign. In 1834, the Bayonne mint struck only 12,343 of them, a tiny mintage for a circulating gold coin. Most circulated and ended up in the melting pot. A Bayonne example still this fresh is a rare find.
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