1 Franc - Guillaume III Essai

1 Franc - Guillaume III (Essai) - obverse1 Franc - Guillaume III (Essai) - reverse

© Veilinghuis Eeckhout

Features

Issuer Luxembourg
Grand duchess Charlotte (1919-1964)
Type Pattern
Year 1946
Value 1 Franc (1 LUF)
Currency Franc (1854-2001)
Composition Nickel
Weight 4.56 g
Diameter 21 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
104149
References L# 330-2,
Romain Probst; 1998. Prifix : catalogue illustré des monnaies luxembourgeoises (1026 - 1998). Banque du Timbre et Lux-Numis, Luxembourg.
Wictor# E33
Fernand Wictor; 1965. Monnaies et Essais-Monétaires du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg 1795-1965. Self-published, Luxembourg.

Obverse

Portrait of Grand Duke Guillaume de Nassau, surrounded by legend and three points at the bottom. Signature of the engraver under the portrait.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
• GUILLAUME• GRAND• DUC• DE• LUXEMBOURG • •
A.M.

Engraver: Alphonse Michaux

Reverse

Small crowned Luxembourgish coat of arms with a lion rampant to the left and a forked tail on a field of ten pieces, placed to the left of it the word ESSAI and splitting the mint year. Face value at the bottom.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ESSAI
18 - 52
1 FRANC

Engraver: Alphonse Michaux

Edge

Milled

Comments

It was a very rare trial strike, minted with the year 1852, but with the effigy of Grand Duke Guillaume de Nassau, who ruled from 1905 to 1912, which was struck after 1945 at the mint in Brussels.

Available in two versions:
  • Nickel - 4.6 g. - plain edge - mintage unknown - L#330-1 / KM# -

  • Nickel - 4.56 g. - reeded edge - mintage unknown - L#330-2 / KM# -


© Photo from the sale of January 9, 2010, Auc. 3 l. 353 and used with the kind agreement of Mr. Joselito Eeckhout.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
1946  100

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