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| | 19th century Coins |
 | | Different political regimes and revolutions followed one another, wars were won or lost, colonies
colonised, the economy was in full development, coins began to be struck on an industrial basis, with hundreds of thousands of identical examples being produced ; however the engravers were still chosen from amongst the great masters. |
 | | The coins of this period are those used by Jules Vernes, Victor Hugo, Renoir, Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, they witnessed the first cars, the first photos and the first film. |
 | | If it seems impossible to make unexpected discoveries with regards to the types and dates of coins of this period, there is however great variety in the engravers' marks, trial strikes and dies and they are far from being all classified. |
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