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10 Cents

Issuer Monnaie de Paris
Year 1885-1895
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Technique Milled
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Obverse description Seated allegorical figure of the French Republic (Marianne), wearing a radiate crown, facing slightly left, draped in classical robes. She holds a fasces surmounted by a Phrygian cap upright in her raised right hand, while her left hand rests upon a rudder at her side; a sheaf of wheat stands to the left in the field. The surrounding legend reads REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE, with the engraver's name BARRE and the date inscribed in the lower exergual area. The design is executed in high relief within a toothed border.
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Reverse description Central field displays the denomination 10 CENT. in two bold lines, enclosed within a wreath composed of oak and olive branches tied at the base with a ribbon, with the Paris mint mark A positioned just below the denomination. The peripheral legend INDO-CHINE FRANÇAISE arcs across the upper portion, while the lower arc carries the fineness and weight specifications TITRE 0,900 POIDS 2.721, all contained within a toothed border. The overall design is clean and typographically precise, consistent with the academic style of the Monnaie de Paris in the late nineteenth century.
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