Question about French 5-/10-franc coins

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Question about French 5-/10-franc coins

Postby cooyon » Sun Sep 18, 2016 6:30 pm

I picked up a big lot of French coinage last week, which included 94 nickle-clad 5-francs and 67 bi-metallic 10-francs (with nickle centers). Do these coins have any value for the Ni content? I can't imagine they do, but it never hurts to ask.Appreciate any thoughts on this. Thanks!
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Re: Question about French 5-/10-franc coins

Postby blackrabbit » Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:37 pm

Nickel clad can't have much value, the nickel centers probably have a little but only worth a cent, if that.
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Re: Question about French 5-/10-franc coins

Postby cooyon » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:07 pm

blackrabbit wrote:Nickel clad can't have much value, the nickel centers probably have a little but only worth a cent, if that.


Thanks Andrew...I had a feeling these would just go into my foreign junk box, maybe sell them to AGgressive Metal by the pound :lol:
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Re: Question about French 5-/10-franc coins

Postby AGgressive Metal » Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:34 pm

Idk about the 10 franc but there are a few low mintage years of the 5
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For nothyng is better than lyberte
For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world
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Re: Question about French 5-/10-franc coins

Postby cooyon » Tue Sep 20, 2016 4:07 pm

AGgressive Metal wrote:Idk about the 10 franc but there are a few low mintage years of the 5


Bill,
These are all early '70s with very high mintage.
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Re: Question about French 5-/10-franc coins

Postby AGgressive Metal » Tue Sep 20, 2016 6:33 pm

To the pile they go! :)
And he that hath lyberte ought to kepe hit wel
For nothyng is better than lyberte
For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world
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Re: Question about French 5-/10-franc coins

Postby doug444 » Tue Feb 21, 2017 2:29 pm

Here's a related thought: if the European Union crashes and burns, the EURO coins may just be so much scrap metal shortly thereafter. I have no idea how many countries, varieties, and denominations there are now, but it's surely in the hundreds (my Krause only goes to 2000). Although they are not easy to get, being an ocean away, this might be the time to find out the low mintages, and put away select AU pieces, etc., and perhaps small-denom Euro currency too.

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