Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
Collector's Choice Feb 2020 Auction 26-28 Feb 2020
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This issue, from the Paris mint, is the only date of its type, struck during Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's short tenure as president of the Second Republic. At the end of 1852, he staged a coup d'etat and declared himself emperor Napoleon III (1853-70).
Estimate: $375.00- $425.00