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1 Cent Piedfort Pattern
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| Engraver(s) | Jean-Baptiste-Daniel Dupuis |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays four large Chinese characters arranged symmetrically around a central round hole, reading '百一之分' (meaning 'one hundredth'), rendered in bold, deeply struck relief. A fine dotted inner border frames the central field. The circular Latin legend 'INDO-CHINE FRANÇAISE' arcs along the upper periphery, while the date '1908' is prominently placed in the lower exergual area. The overall design reflects the bilingual character of French Indochinese coinage, integrating both Western and Chinese numismatic conventions. |
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Piedforts — coins struck on blanks of double or greater than standard thickness — were produced by the Monnaie de Paris primarily as presentation pieces and archival specimens rather than for any circulation purpose. The 1908 date places this squarely within the period when France was still operating under the franc germinal system established by Napoleon in 1803, with the Paris mint supplying pattern and piedfort strikes to collectors, ministry officials, and institutional archives as a matter of routine documentation.
Lec#63 references Leccompte's catalog of French patterns, the authoritative source for this material. Survivorship is typically low — these were never meant to proliferate.