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FRANCE. Platinum 500 Francs, 1991. Paris Mint. NGC PROOF-69 Ultra Cameo.

Fr-623a; KM-1003a. This impressive proof offers a near flawless nature with a beautiful cameo appearance that divides crisp frosted devices from luminous mirrored fields. The near perfection of this piece provides sensory overload, that is of course assuming the immediate perceptions of the senses can be trusted, a hasty assumption that Descartes himself would never allow to stand without first subjecting such an assumption to methodic doubt. Only then once the anchor point of knowledge is fixed in the knowledge of cogito ergo sum, that no matter how much I may doubt, it is impossible to doubt my own thinking, can a proper view of sensory data be attempted in order to describe this coin as "nearly flawless."

Estimate: $800 - $1200