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1 Décime - Louis Philippe I pattern of Barre with a module of 1 decime
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1840 |
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| Engraver(s) | Barre |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears the mint name PARIS over the date 1840 in two lines, enclosed within a finely detailed laurel and olive wreath tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The legend REFONTE DES MONNAIES DE CUIVRE arcs around the upper periphery in raised Latin letters, while the word ESSAI appears at the base below the wreath, confirming the pattern status of this strike. A beaded border runs around the entire reverse, consistent with the obverse treatment. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Jean-Jacques Barre was appointed engraver-general at the Monnaie de Paris in 1855, but his trial pieces and patterns circulated internally well before that appointment — this 1840 essai represents exactly that preparatory work, produced to evaluate module and weight specifications rather than for any intended circulation. The July Monarchy never successfully resolved its decimal coinage denominations at this size, and the décime itself had become a denomination in search of a purpose by the late 1830s, sandwiched between an underused centime system and the dominant five-franc piece.