Revolutionary Bank Notes.- Gérard (Jean-Baptiste,
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Revolutionary Bank Notes.- Gérard (Jean-Baptiste, engraver) Autograph Letter signed to the French Finance Ministry, in French, 1p., sm. 4to, 12th May 1792, concerning payment for Gérard's engraved 15 and 25 livres plates for the issue of Assignats (a form of paper currency instituted by the National Assembly in 1789) for which he asked 5,000 livres, with contemporary annotation in a Ministry hand details that he ultimately accepted the 3,000 livres offer, folds, slightly browned.
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Revolutionary Bank Notes.- Gérard (Jean-Baptiste,
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