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10 Santeem - Haile Selassie I Trial Strike
| Issuer | Ethiopia |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Emperor Haile Selassie I facing left, presented as a uniformed bust with imperial regalia. The date is rendered in Ge'ez numerals in the field, corresponding to Ethiopian calendar year 1936 (EE), equivalent to 1944 in the Gregorian calendar. The legend is inscribed in Ge'ez script. This trial strike obverse features a refined portrait typical of the transitional coinage designs prepared for the post-liberation Ethiopian monetary reform. |
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| Reverse script | Ge'ez |
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Trial strikes from Ethiopia's 1944 coinage program were produced as the country rebuilt its monetary infrastructure following liberation from Italian occupation in 1941. Haile Selassie had spent the occupation years in exile in Bath, England, and the postwar recoinage was a deliberate assertion of restored sovereignty — conducted with technical assistance from foreign mints rather than domestic facilities, which Ethiopia did not yet possess.
Brass trial pieces from this series are rarely documented in institutional collections, making provenance difficult to establish with confidence.