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NYINC Signature Sale 3051 8-9 January 2017
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Napoleon III copper Pattern 5 Francs/20 Reales Mule ND (1855) MS63 Brown NGC, Paris mint, Maz-1738 var. By Barre. A beautiful chocolate brown and choice piece, with glossy fields. Mazard relays that when the engraver Barre received the commission to produce trials for the Spanish 20 Reales, he borrowed the Bouvet obverse dies (Mazard 1635 and 1637) as a placeholder for the obverse. This pattern was created with the Maz-1637 laureate obverse and the edge from Maz-1638b "LEY PATRIA REY" and is even more unusual in that it is struck in copper while being listed in Mazard only in silver. Our research has yielded no other examples in copper.
Ex. Heritage (Auction 3026, September 2013, Lot 24588)
Estimate: 2000-3000 USD
Napoleon III copper Pattern 5 Francs/20 Reales Mule ND (1855) MS63 Brown NGC, Paris mint, Maz-1738 var. By Barre. A beautiful chocolate brown and choice piece, with glossy fields. Mazard relays that when the engraver Barre received the commission to produce trials for the Spanish 20 Reales, he borrowed the Bouvet obverse dies (Mazard 1635 and 1637) as a placeholder for the obverse. This pattern was created with the Maz-1637 laureate obverse and the edge from Maz-1638b "LEY PATRIA REY" and is even more unusual in that it is struck in copper while being listed in Mazard only in silver. Our research has yielded no other examples in copper.
Ex. Heritage (Auction 3026, September 2013, Lot 24588)
Estimate: 2000-3000 USD