The Hundred Days

CNG 87, Lot: 1644. Estimate $300. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, First Empire (Restored). Napoléon I. 1815. AV 20 Francs (21mm, 6.43 g, 6h). Cent-Jours (Hundred Days) issue. Paris mint. Dated 1815. NAPOLEON EMPEREUR ◊, laureate head left / EMPIRE FRANÇAIS ◊, 20/FRANCS ◊ in two lines; all within wreath; below, 1815 ◊ between rooster and A. VG 1025a; Friedberg 522; KM 705.1. Good VF, underlying luster, a few marks.

From the John H. McWhinney Collection.