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1 Cent Pattern
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1885 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a tall vertical rectangular cartouche bearing four Chinese characters reading '百分之一' (one hundredth), flanked on either side by the numeral '1' to the left and the denomination indicator 'C' to the right. The surrounding legend 'INDO-CHINE FRANÇAISE' arcs along the upper periphery, while the weight specification '· POIDS 10 GR ·' is inscribed along the lower periphery, all contained within a beaded inner border and plain outer rim. The bilingual design reflects the dual French and Chinese administrative character of the colonial issue. |
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The Monnaie de Paris produced a series of pattern cents in the 1880s for what would become French Cochinchina and, later, the unified Indochina coinage system. These were exploratory strikes testing compositions and formats before the colonial administration settled on a final circulating type. The silver-plated bronze composition of this specific piece — catalogued as Lec#36c — marks it as one of several compositional variants struck from the same dies, distinguishing it from the copper and silver strikings of the same pattern.
Patterns of this type rarely left Paris.