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10 Centimes pattern by Oudiné
| 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 A. OUDINE F. |
| Reverse description | Central field displays the denomination 10 CENT. and date 1848 in three lines, enclosed within a wreath composed of oak branches on the right and olive or laurel branches on the left, tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The republican motto LIBERTÉ • ÉGALITÉ • FRATERNITÉ arcs around the upper periphery, separated by raised dots, with a toothed border encircling the entire design. |
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This is one of several competing designs submitted during the frantic post-revolutionary coinage reform of 1848, when the newly proclaimed Second Republic needed an entirely new visual identity stripped of Bourbon and Orléanist associations. Eugène-André Oudiné, then an engraver at the Paris Mint, was among multiple artists commissioned to propose designs. Tin was the standard material for such essais — cheap, easily worked, and never intended for circulation.
Mazeau's cataloguing of this piece as 1348a indicates a variant within Oudiné's submitted series, suggesting at least one other striking exists from the same competition.