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By 1795 the French had gone from Livre denominations to Francs There is one very rare Franc note - the 750 Francs of 7.1.1795 P.A79 which we offer at £450. It has a centre crease and age foxing. but otherwise has very wide margins and is about extremely fine £450.
No collection of the French Revolution is complete without an example of a John Law Note, He is the man who thought of the idea of the "assignat' which was rejected by the Scots when he advanced it to Scotland's authori-ties .There he killed a man in a duel, was sentenced to death for it, escaped to France and met the Prince Regent in a gambling den The Prince was so im-pressed with Law's Enancial genius that he hired him to solve the enancial problems of France. Although never adopted in his lifetime, some 70 years af-ter his death the French revolutionaries read his tract "Money and Trade Con-sidered" regarding assignats (basically assigning the value of notes to land and property). As they had just confiscated the churches property it seemed a good idea But they over-issued and caused inflation.
John Law's audacious schemes on the stockmarket made bootblacks into millionaires - in fact the word "millionarie" came into use as a result of Ibis share manipulations. But his schemes collapsed and he had to flee from France.
