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10 Santeem - Haile Selassie I Obverse Trial
| Issuer | Ethiopian Empire (Ethiopia) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 10 Santeem (አሥር፡ሳንቲም) (0.10) |
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| Obverse script | Ge'ez |
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| Mintage | 1936 (1944) |
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Trial pieces for this 1944 Ethiopian coinage were produced as part of the post-occupation monetary reconstruction following the expulsion of Italian forces in 1941. The British-administered mint work, coordinated largely through the Philadelphia Mint, was part of Haile Selassie's broader effort to restore a functioning Ethiopian currency after years of Italian lira imposition. Obverse trials in brass represent die-testing or compositional proofing stages that rarely escaped official channels, making survivors genuinely uncommon rather than merely scarce by collector convention.