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100 Greatest Modern World Coins Series: France 1929 Gold 100 Francs

Affected by war and the pillage of inflation, our next focus in our blog series covering Whitman Publishing’s 100 Greatest Modern World Coins is a key date of a series of coins that would take its final bow just a few short years after its introduction. Authors Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker will help guide us through this series from France and the importance of not only its coinage type, but its groundbreaking design.

#91 – France 1929 Gold 100 Francs

France would produce three circulating gold coins in denominations of 20, 50, and 100 francs before the onslaught of World War I. Only the 100 francs would survive the aftermath and continue to make sense producing, even though its weight was reduced significantly to under one-fifth of an ounce of gold. Inflation would ultimately be the cause and the effect of the gold 100...read more