fwo_923150 - MONACO - PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO - CHARLES III 100 Francs or 1884 Paris
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Price : 2 100.00 €
Type : 100 Francs or
Date: 1884
Mint name / Town : Paris
Quantity minted : 15000
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 35,15 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 32,24 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie nettoyée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CHARLES III PRINCE DE MONACO.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Charles III à droite ; au-dessous PONSCARME et A.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (ANCRE) CENT - FRANCS 1884.
Reverse description : Écu aux armes de Monaco posé sur un manteau couronné.
Commentary
Au total, 35 000 pièces de 100 francs ont été frappées en 1882, 1884 et 1886. Ces pièces servaient à la table de jeu du casino.
Historical background
MONACO - PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO - CHARLES III
(20/06/1856-10/09/1889)
Charles III (8/12/1818-10/09/1889) is the son of Florestan I. He succeeded his father in 1856 and created the order of Charles III in 1858. After the Franco-Sardinian victory of 1859 and the transfer of the county of Nice in 1860, he found himself stuck between France and Italy. On February 2, 1861, by an agreement with France, he sold Menton and Roquebrune for 400 million francs and signed a customs agreement with France. The construction of the Casino in 1863, the arrival of the railway and the construction of Monte Carlo in 1866 will save Monaco and make it a modern principality. The opera, a work of Garnier like that of Paris, was inaugurated in 1879. Charles III died in 1889 and his son Albert I succeeded him.
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