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LOT 4186
France, Louis-Philippe I AR 5 Francs. Dated 1850. Paris mint. Jean-Pierre Collot, Mint Master.
Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier, engraver. LOUIS PHILIPPE ROI DES FRANÇAIS, bare head to right, N.P.TIOLIER in small lettering on truncation / Denomination above date; all within wreath of laurel and olive branches. KM 737. Good Very Fine.(24.97gr, 37mm, 5h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
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