1 Decime - Honore V knot of wreath tied

Honoré V ruled Monaco under French July Monarchy patronage, a relationship that left the principality's coinage policy awkwardly dependent on Paris while maintaining the fiction of sovereign issue. The 1838 copper decime came late in his reign — he died in 1841 — and the principality's tiny population meant mintage demands were modest at best. The KM#97.1a designation specifically distinguishes pieces by the knot configuration on the wreath reverse, a minor but catalogued die difference that has generated outsized collector attention relative to the coin's actual rarity.