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10 Centimes pattern by Boivin
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1848 |
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| Value | 10 Centimes (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE P.BOIVIN |
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| Reverse lettering | LIBERTÉ . ÉGALITÉ . FRATERNITÉ . 10 CENT(s). 1848 |
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The upheaval of February 1848 — which toppled Louis-Philippe and proclaimed the Second Republic — immediately threw French coinage into institutional chaos. The Monnaie de Paris solicited competing designs from multiple engravers, resulting in a documented flurry of pattern emissions before the definitive republican types were settled. Boivin's submission was one of several that never advanced to currency production.
The Mazard reference places this among a small cluster of copper essay pieces from that competitive window, with the VG variant notation suggesting minor die differences exist within the type itself.