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10 Francs Essai Piedfort
| Uitgever | Madagascar |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1953 |
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| Techniek | Milled |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | A female allegorical effigy of the French Republic is portrayed in left-facing profile, wearing a winged Phrygian cap adorned with the French tricolor. Cargo ships appear in the background field, evoking maritime commerce. The date 1953 is inscribed below the effigy, followed by a privy mark. The encircling legend identifies the issuing authority and the engraver, rendered in raised Latin lettering. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE ESSAI G.B.L.BAZOR 1953 (Translation: French Republic) |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Piédfort essais from French colonial territories in the early 1950s were produced almost exclusively for official presentation purposes — submitted to the French Ministry of Overseas Territories for type approval before any circulation coinage was authorized. Madagascar's 1953 issues preceded the territory's formal autonomy within the French Union, and the essai program was a bureaucratic requirement, not a collector initiative. Most examples went directly into government archives or to the Paris Mint's own reference holdings.
The aluminium-bronze specification here mirrors the metropolitan France approach to low-denomination tropical coinage — chosen for corrosion resistance in humid climates. Surviving piédforts are rare precisely because so few were ever struck.