1 Franc Piefort Essai

Descrizione del dritto	Left-facing draped bust of Marianne wearing a winged Phrygian cap, engraved in the style of Lucien Georges Bazor. Four sailing ships appear in the background field, evoking maritime trade and colonial symbolism. The legend encircles the effigy, with the engraver's signature L.BAZOR and the initials G.B. inscribed in the field. The word ESSAI and the date 1948 confirm the trial strike status of this piefort issue.
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Informazioni aggiuntive	Piéforts are struck at double the normal planchet thickness, a practice the Monnaie de Paris has used for centuries to produce presentation-quality trial pieces for official approval and distribution to dignitaries. The 1948 aluminium franc piéfort sits in a particularly transitional moment for French coinage — postwar austerity had pushed the standard circulation franc into aluminium, a metal the French mint had little pre-war experience striking at scale. The piéfort format documented that adjustment for the record. KM#PE1 designation confirms this as the first catalogued piéfort entry for the Fourth Republic franc series.

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