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10 Centimes - Gouvernement de Défense Nationale Épreuve uniface d'avers au Génie

Issuer Monnaie de Paris
Year 1870
Type Coin pattern
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Obverse description Central design features the allegorical figure of the Genius of Liberty, depicted as a standing winged male figure facing right, inscribing the date 1870 upon a fasces-mounted tablet. The figure is rendered in a neoclassical style engraved by Albert Désiré Barre. The circumferential legend reads LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ LA PATRIE EN DANGER, distributed around the periphery of the field. The exergue bears the engraver's signature BARRE. This is a uniface obverse trial strike (épreuve uniface d'avers) produced during the Government of National Defense period.
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Obverse lettering LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ LA PATRIE EN DANGER 1870 31 août 1871
Reverse description The reverse of this uniface trial piece is blank, presenting a plain, featureless field consistent with a uniface striking. The surface shows the characteristic flat, unworked appearance typical of épreuves unifaces, with no design, legend, or inscription of any kind.
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