Mr. Member's Specimens To the Editor of the "Nowri-Cunxa Dany News"
'SmI read with much interest! Mr. G. H. Pants' letter in your Journal this morning, which made me refer with equal interest to the letter!
Iwremestep in your issue of the 16th inst.
have' in my possession four 20. franc gold pieces of about the period referred 10. I have no knowledge of their value, they having been given lo'me many years ago, but a description may be of interest to some of your Teaders, to whom I should be leased to show them if desired.
Three of the coins bear the head of Nopoteon. On the first he is described as "Buonaparte—Premier: Consul" and the obverse side bears! the wording "Republieque Francaise." The date is An, 12, which presumably Indicates the twelfth year of the First Republic, and which I think is the equivalent of 1808 in our present.
The second coin bears precisely the same head but with the Inscription Napoleon—Empereur" and the date also An, 12. The interesting fact about this coin is that whilst Napoleon is described as Emperor, Franeal what strange com the obverse side reads "Republiqh ing ina. Republic.
third coin is dated 1811 and bears Napoleon's head and he is again described as Emperor. The obverse however, on this coin, refers The fourth coin, also a 20-frane gold loco, dated 1814, bears the head of Louis "XVII, described "Roi de France: This presumably was the issue during the first Restora~ which I believe took place in the year 1814, Shanghai, Nov, 20,
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