Live auction - fmd_501601 - Piéfort or de 50 francs Hercule 1974 GEM.223 P2
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| Estimate : | 5 000 € |
| Price : | 4 500 € |
| Maximum bid : | 4 600 € |
| End of the sale : | 05 March 2019 18:29:07 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Piéfort or de 50 francs Hercule
Date: 1974
Quantity minted : 250/241
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 920 ‰
Diameter : 41 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 103,4 g.
Edge : motifs en relief se rapportant respectivement à l'agriculture (gerbe de blé, coq, grappe de raisin), à l'industrie (marteau, roue dentée, compas) et au commerce (balance, corne d'abondance, caducée)
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Infimes traces de manipulation ; des hairlines dans les champs
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente MONNAIES XIV, lot n°1317 et de la Collection R.P.
Obverse
Obverse legend : (FEUILLE D'OLIVIER) LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ.
Obverse description : Hercule nu avec la léonté debout de face, unissant la Liberté debout à gauche tenant une pique surmontée d'un bonnet phrygien et l'Égalité à droite, tenant le niveau ; signé Dupré cursif à l'exergue.
Reverse
Reverse legend : RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE// 50/ FRANCS// 1974.
Reverse description : dans une couronne composite de chêne et d’olivier.
Commentary
En 1974, 1000 piéforts furent frappés en argent, 250 en or et seulement 50 en platine. Sur les 250 exemplaires en or, 241 furent vendus.
Historical background
V REPUBLIC
(since 08/01/1959)
The Fifth Republic, whose constitution was approved by referendum on September 28, 1958 by more than 79% of French people, only officially began with the installation of General de Gaulle as president on January 8, 1959. The constitution was amended on January 28, 1958. October 1962 by referendum where a majority of 62% of votes approves the election of the President of the Republic by direct universal suffrage. The various presidents of the Fifth Republic are Charles de Gaulle (8/01/1959 - 27/04/1969, retirement and Alain Poher becomes interim president), Georges Pompidou (15/06/1969 - 2/04/1974, deceased , Alain Poher becomes interim president), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (19/05/1974 - 21/05/1981), François Mitterrand (21/05/1981 - 7/05/1995), Jacques Chirac (7/05 /1995 - 05/16/2007), Nicolas Sarkozy (05/16/2007 - 05/15/2012), François Hollande (05/15/2012 - 05/14/2017) and Emmanuel Macron (05/14/2017 - ).
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