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1 Décime pattern by Rogat, project 3
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1848 |
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| Thickness | 2.8 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE 1848 DECIME E.ROGAT (Translation: French Republic 10 centimes) |
| Reverse description | The reverse displays a bold horizontal rule or gauge bar across the center of the field, flanked by tick marks, indicating a standardized measurement of 3 centimetres corresponding to the coin's diameter. Above the bar, the legend LIBERTE EGALITE is inscribed across the upper field, with the numeral 3 and CENTIMETRES placed centrally. Below the bar, 20 GRAMMES denotes the intended weight specification, and FRATERNITE curves along the lower field. This utilitarian reverse design, unique among French patterns of the period, serves as an embedded physical standard for verifying the coin's dimensions and mass. |
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The French Second Republic's monetary redesign in 1848 generated an extraordinary volume of competing pattern submissions — Rogat alone submitted multiple distinct projects, of which this is the third. The provisional government had abolished royal imagery overnight following Louis-Philippe's February abdication, leaving the mint without an approved coinage design for months. Private diesinkers and established engravers alike flooded the administration with proposals.
Rogat's submissions never advanced to adoption. The contract ultimately went to Jacques-Jean Barre.