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10 Francs
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#959, Gad#824, F#373, Schön#251, KM#E132 |
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| Reverse description | A stylised Gallic cockerel facing right dominates the central field, rendered in bold modernist lines with sweeping curved forms suggesting wings and tail feathers. The denomination '10F' appears in large numerals in the upper field, with the legend 'RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE' running along the upper periphery. The date '1986' is inscribed in the lower exergue, with the engraver's name 'JIMENEZ' and a privy mark positioned at the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE 10F 1986 JIMENEZ (Translation: Republic of France 10 Francs 1986 Jimenez) |
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The 1986 10 Francs belongs to the Victor Hugo commemorative series issued in conjunction with the centenary of his death in 1885. Hugo's face on French coinage was itself a minor political act — the Third Republic had long venerated him as a republican icon, and the centenary commemorations of 1985–86 were explicitly tied to that ideological inheritance. The coin circulated alongside the existing Mathieu nickel 10 Francs, creating a brief period of parallel types in everyday commerce.