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10 centimes Essai en nickel de Pillet
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1913 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Central round hole flanked by Republican symbols within an olive and laurel wreath: to the left, a fasces; above the hole, a Phrygian helmet; to the right, the interlaced monogram 'RF' (République Française) in large relief letters. The date 1913 appears in the lower field beneath the central hole. The overall composition is enclosed within a beaded inner border and a wreath of olive and laurel branches tied at the base. |
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| Mintage | 1913 |
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The 1913 nickel essai series for French minor coinage emerged from a broader effort to reform fractional currency before the First World War disrupted everything. Pillet's submission was one of several competing trial pieces evaluated by the Monnaie de Paris that year. None advanced to circulation — the war arrived first, and post-war inflation made the centime denomination increasingly academic anyway.
GEM 37.2 distinguishes this specific die marriage within the Pillet submissions.