Gold coins amassed by collector Paul Narce of Castillonnès, France and hidden in a wall have fetched nearly $4 million at a recent auction at Beaussant Lefèvre in Paris.

If you travel to France ... the ruling government revived France’s troubled financial system by striking 20-pound, and then 24-pound, gold ... 1867 Napoleon III gold Proof Essai 25 Francs ...

A huge collection of historic gold coins, recovered from the wall of a house in France after their owner passed away, has been sold for millions of euros at auction.

The coin collection went under the gavel for an eye-popping $3.8 million, far exceeding the pre-auction estimate of around $2.3 million. Meanwhile, the francs, valued at around $115,650, will be ...

France's national currency may be disappearing with scarcely a whimper, but it was born in a Gallic flourish of defiance against the English Kings during the Hundred Years War. In French the word ...

France tied its currency to both gold and silver: per an 1803 Napoleonic law, the French mint paid 200 francs for a kilo of silver and 3,100 francs for a kilo of gold. France’s double price guarantee ...