20 Franc

1896, France (3rd Republic). Beautiful Gold 20 Francs Coin. (6.45gm!) NGC MS-64!

Mint Year: 1896
Mint Place: Paris (A)
Denomination: 20 Francs
References: Friedberg 533, KM-826.
Condition: Certified and graded by NGC as MS-64!
Material: Gold (.900)
Diameter: 21mm
Weight: 6.45gm

Obverse: Standing winged genius inscribing table, which rests on a column. Fasces, topped by swearing hand to left, cock to right.
Comment: Designer´s signature below (Dupré).
Legend: REPUBLIC FRANCAISE
 
Reverse: Value (20 FRANCS) and date (1896) within wreath. Mint initial (A) below, flanked by privy marks.
Legend: LIBERTE EGALITÈ FRATERNITE (cornucopia) A (fasces)

Authenticity unconditionally guaranteed.

The French Third Republic (French: La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the republican government of France between the end of the Second French Empire (following the defeat of Louis-Napoléon in the Franco-Prussian war) in 1870 and the Vichy Regime after the invasion of France by the German Third Reich in 1940.

Adolphe Thiers, recognized as le Libérateur du Territoire and one who rallied himself to the Republic in the 1870s, called republicanism in the 1870s "the form of government that divides France least". The Third Republic endured seventy years, making it the longest lasting regime in France since the collapse of the Ancien Régime in the French Revolution of 1789.

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