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Lot 196

Starting price: 150 GBP
Price realized: 520 GBP
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France, Napoleon, 5 francs, 1811 A, with owls head countermark. "This was thought to be a product of modern fantasy applied to the coins a century or so after the Napoleonic period. Forty-seven specimens have been collected. These show beyond any doubt that this was no late fantasy but rather a mark of execratio made in 1815 which referred to napoleon the Tiger (now confined in a cage)?. J B Forestier, F de Callatay, Revue Numismatique 2006, vol. 6 pp. 343-358". coin fine, countermarkm VF+, rare
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