Watch List notes:

Foreign Coins, France, Consulate, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794), copper pattern or trial for coinage (essai à perfectionner les monnaies), Year 8 (1800), by Bertrand Andrieu, bust r., ANT LAUR LAVOISIER, rev. REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE, and in six lines, L'AN 8 PH. GENGEMBRE ESSAYAIT DE PERFECTIONNER LES MONNAIES, edge: * A LA PATRIE * AUX SCIENCES, 25.5mm. (Maz.614a), good very fine, scarce
*ex International Coin Exchange [ICE] Mail Bid Sale, lot 222
Lavoisier, 'the father of modern chemistry', biologist and nobleman, guillotined on the orders of Marat in 1794.

Europe in Revolution (1789-1814). A Collection of European Coins from the time of Revolution
(80-120 GBP)