FS - World Coins - 1898 and 1898A French 10 Centimes

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Certified High-End Uncirculated Pair of 1898 Transition Year French Bronze 10 Centimes

Believed to be highest certified 1898 10 Centime pair in existence

 

Coin number one:

1898A French 10 Centimes – earlier issue in transition year. Graded NGC 66RB.

 

Clean surfaces with proof-like luster. The only known certified specimen.

 

This early 1898 coin was struck under the Third Republic of France 1898-1921 10 Centime series, and is a Paris Mint issue. The 1898 is a better date compared to the common issues of the War but is not scarce. The design was also used on bronze one, two and five centimes of the Belle Époque. All the bronze ten centimes pieces were demonetized in 1935.

 

Designer: Louis Oscar Roty (Victor D. Brenner’s teacher in Paris)

Diameter: 30mm. Weight: 10g. Edge: Plain. Metal: Bronze. Mint: Paris

Mintage: 4,000,000

 

$500.00 NGC MS66RB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coin number two:

1898 French 10 Centimes – later issue in transition year, and the new design widely recognized as associated with the beginning of the French “Belle Époque”. Graded PCGS 66RD.

 

Matte-like surface with die polishing striations and satin luster.

 

Designer: Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis

Diameter: 30mm. Weight: 10g. Edge: Plain. Metal: Bronze. Mint: Paris

Mintage: 2,000,000

Catalogue references:

Mintage: 2,000,000

Catalogue references:

Le Franc: F.136/1

Krause: KM#843

 

Obverse: Draped Bust of Republic with Phrygian cap and olive branch, facing right; “REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE”. (“Republic of France.”)

 

Reverse: Armored and draped Republic, seated left on a rock with his right hand holding a flag-bearer and his left hand an olive branch on his right a child holding ears of wheat and a hammer, 10c below right and (date) below (“Republic protecting her child”); “LIBERTE EGALITE FRATERNITE” (“Freedom, Equality, Fraternity.”)

 

Sources:

• Prieur, Michel, and Laurent Schmitt, Le Franc VIII: Les Monnaies, Paris: Éditions les Chevau-légers, 2009.

• Bruce, Colin R., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 5th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2006.

• http://www.coindatabase.com/coin_detail_france.php?cdb=U090101

 

$1100.00 PCGS MS66RD