100 francs Egalité - La Fayette essai
Features
| Issuer |
France
 |
|---|---|
| Period |
Fifth Republic (1958-date)
|
| Type | Patterns |
| Year | 1987 |
| Value | 100 Francs (100 FRF) |
| Currency | New franc (1960-2001) |
| Composition | Silver (.900) |
| Weight | 15 g |
| Diameter | 31 mm |
| Thickness | 2.20 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Demonetized | 17 February 2002 |
| Number | N# 450961 |
| References | Franc 2014# 455 Stéphane Desrousseaux, Michel Prieur, Laurent Schmitt; 2014. Le Franc: Les Monnaies (10th Edition). Les Chevau-Légers, Paris, France. Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). Éditions Victor Gadoury (publisher). Monnaies françaises (Gadoury). Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco, Monaco (9 volumes). Michel Taillard, Michel Arnaud; 2014. Essais Monétaires et Piéforts Français 1870-2001. Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco, Monaco. |
Commemorative issue
230th anniversary of the birth of the Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834).
Series: 100 francs Egalité - La Fayette
Obverse
Left bust of the Marquis de La Fayette in military dress (general).
surrounded by the legend: "GÉNÉRAL LA FAYETTE" and the inscription: "RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE".
Script: Latin
Lettering:
GÉNÉRAL LA FAYETTE
ESSAI
D'AP B. DUVIVIER
· RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE ·
Engraver: Atelier de Gravure (A.G.M.M. / AdG)
Designer: Pierre-Benjamin Duvivier
Reverse
A tree topped by a Phrygian cap bears the motto "LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ". This adaptation of a drawing by Michel Durand-Megret is crossed by a band bearing the face value
Script: Latin
Lettering:
LIBERTÉ
ÉGALITÉ
FRATERNITÉ
100F
1987 DURAND-MEGRET
Engraver: Atelier de Gravure (A.G.M.M. / AdG)
Designer: Michel Durand-Mégret
Edge
Plain
Mint
 |
Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date) |
Comments
Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette (1757-1834),
was a French officer and politician. He is famous for his involvement in the army of the American insurgents, then in the liberal and reformist wing of the French aristocracy (1784-1792), and finally in the liberal opposition to the regime of the July Monarchy, which he had helped to establish during the Three Glorious Years (July 1830).
Appointed general at the age of 19 by George Washington, La Fayette played a decisive role in the American War of Independence against Great Britain.
Coin minted to mark the 230th anniversary of the birth of the Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834).
Drawing of the general by Benjamin Duvivier for a 17th-century monneron.
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| Date | Mintage | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | References | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 1987 | 1 850 | $ 120 | GEM# 236.3Michel Taillard, Michel Arnaud; 2014. Essais Monétaires et Piéforts Français 1870-2001. Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco, Monaco. |
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Numista Rarity index: 75
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Bullion value: USD 32.11
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Actual silver weight: 0.434 oz
Current silver price: 73.97 USD/oz (see silver price 
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