List of 20 Franc French Coin Issues
All issues are 90% fine gold, have a nominal net weight of 6.45 grams and, have a diameter of 21 mm.
Date | Mintage | Obverse legend | Reverse legend | Edge | Engraver | Notes | ||
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Bonaparte
1er consul |
An XI to An XII | 1,046,506 (XI= 58,262) | Bonaparte premier consul | République Française | Dieu protège la France (God Protect France) | Pierre Joseph Tiolier | First year of issue | |
Napoléon | An XII | 428,143 | Napoléon Empereur | République Française | Dieu protège la France | Pierre Joseph Tiolier | Intermediate bust | |
Napoléon | An XIII and an XIV | 673,878 | Napoléon Empereur | République Française | Dieu protège la France | Pierre Joseph Tiolier | Bare head; Revolutionary calendar | |
Napoléon | 1806 | 996,367 | Napoléon Empereur | République Française | Dieu protège la France | Pierre Joseph Tiolier | Bare head; Gregorian calendar | |
Napoléon | 1807 | 594,332 | Napoléon Empereur | République Française | Dieu protège la France | Pierre Joseph Tiolier | Bare head; transition type | |
Napoléon | 1807 to 1808 | 1,725,753 | Napoléon Empereur | République Française | Dieu protège la France | Pierre Joseph Tiolier | Laurel crowned head; République Française | |
Napoléon | 1809 to 1815 | 14,283,710 | Napoléon Empereur | Empire Français | Dieu protège la France | Pierre Joseph Tiolier | Laurel crowned head; Empire Français – note coins were struck in 1815 for both Napoleon and Louis 18 | |
Louis ⅩⅧ | 1814 to 1815 | 5,634,709 | Louis XVIII Roi de France (King of France) | Pièce de 20 Francs | DOMINE SALVUM FAC REGEM (God Save the King) | Auguste François Michaut | Uniformed bust – Some pieces were struck in London and are marked with an "R" | |
Louis ⅩⅧ | 1824 to 1826 | 12,733,226 | Louis XVIII Roi de France (King of France) | Pièce de 20 Francs | DOMINE SALVUM FAC REGEM | Auguste François Michaut | Bare bust | |
Charles Ⅹ
type 1 |
1825 to 1826 | 771,932 | Charles X Roi de France (King of France) | DOMINE SALVUM FAC REGEM | Auguste François Michaut | Signature fine | ||
Charles Ⅹ
type 2 |
1827 to 1830 | 919,535 | Charles X Roi de France (King of France) | DOMINE SALVUM FAC REGEM | Auguste François Michaut | Signature bold | ||
Louis-Philippe
type 1 |
1830 to 1831 | 2,371,848 | Louis Philippe I Roi des Français (King of the French) | 20 francs | Dieux protège la France | Nicolas Pierre Tiolier | Edge incused; this king held pro-Revolutionary ideals and therefore changed his royal title | |
Louis-Philippe
type 2 |
1830 to 1831 | included above | Louis Philippe I Roi des Français | 20 francs | Dieux protège la France | Nicolas Pierre Tiolier | Edge raised/in relief | |
Louis-Philippe | 1832 to 1848 | 6,761,231 | Louis Philippe I Roi des Français | 20 francs | Dieux protège la France | Joseph François Domard | ||
Génie
2nd république |
1848 to 1849 | 2,843,007 | République Française | Liberté Egalité Fraternité | *** Dieux protège la France | Augustin Dupré | ||
Cérès
2nd république |
1849 to 1851 | 17,293,983 | République Française | Liberté Egalité Fraternité | *** Dieux protège la France | Louis Merley | ||
Louis Napoléon Bonaparte | 1852 | 9,857,428 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte | République Française | ***** Dieu * protège * la * France | Jean Jacques Barre | ||
Napoléon Ⅲ | 1853 to 1860 | 146,557,145 | Napoléon III Empereur | Empire Français | ***** Dieu * protège * la * France | Jean Jacques Barre | Bare head | |
Napoléon Ⅲ | 1861 to 1870 | 85,344,950 | Napoléon III Empereur | Empire Français | ***** Dieu * protège * la * France | Jean Jacques Barre | Laural crowned head | |
Génie
3 rd république |
1871 to 1898 | 86,101,594 | République Française | Liberté Egalité Fraternité | *** Dieu protège la France (God Protect France) | Augustin Dupré | ||
Cérès/Coq
(Harvest goddess/Rooster) |
1898 to 1914 | 117,448,888 | République Française | Liberté Egalité Fraternité | see notes | Jules Clément Chaplain | Edge 1 (before 1905): *++* DIEU *+ PROTEGE+* LA FRANCE Edge 2 (after 1905): *++* LIBERTE +* EGALITE +* FRATERNITE |
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A 20 franc piece from 1857; Portrait of Napoleon III
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A 20 franc piece from 1907, Cérès, third République
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