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1 Cent
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1879-1885 |
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| Currency | Piastre (1878-1885) |
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| Obverse lettering | RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE A A.B ·1885· (Translation: French Republic A 1885) |
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| Mintage | 1879 A - Lec# 11; proof - 1879 A - Lec# 12 - 500,000 1884 A - Lec# 13 - 444,269 1885 A - Lec# 14; proof - 100 1885 A - Lec# 15 - 255,000 |
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Issued for New Caledonia under French administration, this cent was produced during a period when the territory functioned largely as a penal colony — the transportation of convicts from metropolitan France continued until 1897. Circulation needs were modest; the free settler population remained small, and much of the island's economic activity ran through controlled labor arrangements that had little use for small bronze coinage.
KM#3 is the sole cent type for this issuer across the entire nineteenth century.