| Why collect
coins ?? |
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What
are French coins ? |
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The
Celts (5th-1st century B.C.) |
| Because they have a Meaning. |
France
in the time of the Roman Empire (1st century B.C.- 5th
century A.D.) |
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The
Barbaric Ages (5th - 8th century) |
| Because they offer you something
which enriches your life, because they tell you something to which
you are sensitive. |
Charlemagne
(751 / 987) |
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The
beginning of royal coinage (10th -12th century) |
| What specific Meaning do French
coins offer ? |
Feudal
coins (10th-14th century) |
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Anglo-French
coins (11th-15th century) |
| Two thousand years of History and of
Art which by the movements of ideas and of peoples, concern or are
at the foundation of all Western civilisation and influence the
present evolution of Humanity. |
The
coins of the Crusades (1099 / 1521) |
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Renaissance
coins (15th-16th century) |
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Medals
and tokens (14th-20th century) |
| The Meaning you will find in a
French coin belongs to one of three main categories : the aesthetic
emotion, whether it is a matter of the quality of conservation of
the coin, or the quality of its engraving, the evocation of a
historical event, the witnessing of the evolution of your
ancestors. |
Coins
from Henri IV to Louis XVI (1589 / 1792) |
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The
Revolution (1789 / 1794) |
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Napoléon
(1799 / 1815) |
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Napoleonic
coins (1799 / 1815) |
| And there is another reason, more
prosaic but very important : they are very good value in comparison
with what they offer you. |
The
19th century (1815 / 1897) |
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The
trial coins (12th-20th century) |
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The
early 20th century (1897 / 1959) |
| If you want the maximum of Meaning,
emotion, historical souvenirs for a reasonable amount of money,
collect French coins. |
The
5th Republic |
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Half
of the History of Humanity
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Making
a
Start |
