August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
Plated in Mazard and T&T
FRANCE. Consulate. Bimetallic Copper & Silver Franc Essai (Pattern), Year 12-A (1803/4). Paris Mint. Napoléon as First Consul. PCGS MS-62.
Maz-572 (R5; this coin illustrated); cf. Gad-442 (for regular issue); T&T-1026.2.X (this coin cited & illustrated). Reeded edge. By P.-J. Tiolier. Weight: 3.05 gms. An EXCEPTIONAL RARITY in which an outer ring of copper was used with an inner center of silver, this intriguing bimetallic issue has had its status questioned by the authors of T&T on account of an inability to see the Kraft example in a format other than through an over-sixty-year-old catalog image. This specimen is the Kraft example, and certainly provides no evidence of later manufacture or a fanciful veneer in order to accomplish the bimetallic appearance. A monumental and extremely impressive offering.
From the Richard Margolis Collection (acquired from Münzen und Medaillen on 17 November 1961). Ex: Collection R.K. (Raoul Kraft) (Münzen und Medaillen - 11/1961) Lot # 208 (acquired from Jean Vinchon). Purportedly Ex: Palace Collections of Egypt [King Farouk] (Sotheby's - 3/1954) Lot # 2178 (part of). Purportedly Ex: Wayte Raymond (3/1942) Lot # 142. Purportedly Ex: Virgil M. Brand Collection (as "Ferrari-Brand," Schulman - ca. 1932) Lot # 3462. Purportedly Ex: Baron Phillipe de Ferrari la Renotière Collection.
Estimate: $3000.00- $6000.00
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| Price realized | 12'000 USD |
| Starting price | 1'800 USD |
