拍品描述： FRANCE. Constitution. Bronze 5 Sols Token, Year III/1792. Birmingham (Soho) Mint. PCGS MS-64 Brown. Maz-145 var. (Year IV). Lettered (Départements) edge. By A. Dupré for the Monneron Brothers. Weight: 30.33 gms. Margolis notes the superb strike quality on this example, positing that it may have been struck upon a hand press. Warm brown surfaces, with some dazzling hints of red surrounding the devices. About this strongRARE/strong type, Margolis, in his 1988 article entitled "Matthew Boultons French Ventures of 1791 and 1792; Tokens for the Monneron Frères of Paris and Isle de France," also writes that--"emOn 11 January 1792 Dr Swediaur, writing from Calais on his return journey to Paris, informed Boulton that the National Assembly had just decreed that the fourth year of Liberty should commence as from the beginning of 1792. He therefore requested a change in the dating of the tokens from LAN III to LAN IV. This was quickly done, and as a result the 1792, Year III type was struck for circulation for a very brief time; consequently, it is the scarcest major variety of the regular issue five sols token. In contrast, some seventy tons of the Year IV variety were eventually produced./em" From the Richard Margolis Collection (acquired from Monnaies dAntan on 8 November 2008).pEx: Monnaies dAntan 4 (11/2008) Lot # 957.

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