fwo_976637 - MONACO - PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO - CHARLES III 20 Francs or 1879 Paris
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Price : 530.00 €
Type : 20 Francs or
Date: 1879
Mint name / Town : Paris
Quantity minted : 25000
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,47 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R2
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Obverse
Obverse legend : CHARLES III PRINCE DE MONACO.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Charles III à droite ; dessous PONSCARME et A.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (ANCRE) VINGT - FRANCS 1879.
Reverse description : Écu aux armes de Monaco soutenu par deux moines posé sur un manteau couronné.
Commentary
75.000 pièces de 20 francs ont été frappées en 1878 et 1879. Ces pièces pouvaient circuler en France. Elles ont aussi certainement servi au casino de Monte-Carlo naissant. Pour le millésime 1879, les deux différents ancre et ancre barrée existent comme pour la pièce de 100 francs or. Cette découverte due à Francesco Pastrone a fait l'objet d'une notule dans le FORUM DES AMIS DU FRANC.
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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