10 Centimes Piedfort

Piedfort coins produced by the Monnaie de Paris are struck at double the standard planchet thickness, a practice the Paris mint has maintained almost continuously since the medieval period — making France the longest unbroken tradition of piedfort production anywhere in the world. These pieces were never intended for circulation; they were issued primarily to officials, foreign dignitaries, and archival collections as presentation-quality specimens of current coinage.

The F#144P designation places this within Gadoury's piedfort classification for the aluminum-bronze 10 centimes introduced under the Fifth Republic's currency reform of 1960.