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 ...

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.

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. CNN values your feedback 1.

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 ...

1867 Napoleon III gold Proof Essai 25 Francs: $16,000. 1357 Aquitaine, Edward III, Gold Leopard d’Or: $15,000. 1815 Napoleon “100 Days” 2 Francs: $12,000. 1720 Louis XV, gold Louis d’Or ...