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7 rare French coins you may have at home

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7 rare French coins you may have at home

Millions of coins circulate every day in France, so many that we tend not to pay attention to them. Yet you may well be the unknowing owner of one or more rarities. Here are seven examples of rare coins that you might have in your home.

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11/10/2022

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Bank of England: Portraits of a Queen

Despite what one might think, it is not a matter of course that the portrait of the King (or rather Queen in this case) of the United Kingdom appears on the banknotes. In fact, it was not until 1956 that the Bank of England received authorization for (...)

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09/28/2022

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The Queen’s five jubilees

Queen Elizabeth II acceded to the throne in 1952 following the death of her father, King George VI, and reigned for 70 years. That is seven years longer than the previous holder of the record for longevity of reign in her country: her great-great-gra(...)

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09/28/2022

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Quinarii: from the empire to the empire

There are quinarii, quinarii, and quinarii... There is a bamboozling pecuniary link between the Roman Empire celebrating its victories with memorable congiaries and the Napoleonic Empire celebrating its coronation: the quinarii distributed with great (...)

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08/22/2022

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Mythical Mysia

A long, long time ago, centuries before the arrival of Jesus Christ, when the fires of the Ancient Greek civilization were still burning bright and its cities were wealthy and numerous, the banks of the blue Propontis (now the Sea of Marmara) in Asia(...)

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08/22/2022

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Treizains de mariage and other love tokens

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Treizains de mariage and other love tokens

Medals are often commemorative, and is there any event in life more worth commemorating than a wedding? However, alongside this timeless classic there is also a more intimate, more religious, and less well-known tradition known in French as the treiza(...)

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08/02/2022

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