completed a set..unbelievable

I just love coins for various reasons..their art, history, design, value, and sometimes just because they are very shiny it seems. Anyhow, I have trouble finishing sets because I will get a chance to acquire a nice coin that does not fit one of the sets I am building and then I go off on a tangent and start collecting that new series. Well I know it's not a large valued set, but I am pleased to finally add the final coin to my France 20 Gold Francs Marianne/Rooster set. It was a surprisingly challenging set to finish since most of the pre-1906 coins don't appear very often. So here it is, the final one..the 1899 First Year of Issue, fresh back from NGC today PS: better, close-up photos of the obverse and reverse are in my signature set of the entire set in the World Coins category. I would recommend them as a collectible set. It is a reasonably inexpensive gold set {prices for most range from $125-$200} most dates can be found easily, and just enough of a challenge finding the few harder dates to make it fun...

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