Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
January 2020 NYINC Auction 17-18 Jan 2020
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Struck following the execution of Louis XVI and the proclamation of the Republic, this has the distinction of being among the first gold coins to be produced under the new form of government, and was the only gold denomination of the period, supplanted a decade later by the Napoleonic issues.
Ex: Eliasberg Collection (American Numismatic Rarities, 4/2005) Lot # 140 @ $16,000 [!] (purchased from John Zug, December 1943).
Estimate: $5000.00- $7500.00