I almost forgot to tell you! Ian found this coin under a beam, on the wall at the edge of the shop floor. Could have been placed there deliberately as a 'good luck' token, or perhaps lost by a customer all those years ago and rolled down at crack at the edge of the floorboards.
It's a five-centime piece, dated 1854!
I´ve got one of these marked 1863, just about as badly worn. The difference? I´m in the United States, and it was passed down to me. Mostly my French coins are the aluminum variety from WWII, that my grandfather brought back.
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