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| 正面描述 | Bare-headed portrait bust of Simón Bolívar facing left, rendered in high relief in the neoclassical style, occupying the central field. The legend BOLIVAR to the left and LIBERTADOR to the right arc around the effigy near the toothed border. The engraver's signature BARRE appears in small lettering beneath the truncation at the base of the bust. |
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| 正面铭文 | BOLIVAR LIBERTADOR BARRE (Translation: Liberator Bolivar) |
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Venezuela's coinage system in the 1870s was in flux. The country had formally adopted the metric system and was aligning its currency structure with the Latin Monetary Union, though it never formally joined. These 1875 pattern pieces were part of that exploratory process — proposals for a denomination that never reached circulation, struck in Paris as the government weighed how far to harmonize with the French-led franc zone.
At 16.129 g in .900 gold, the weight mirrors the French double eagle standard scaled to a distinctly Venezuelan denomination. The pattern was never approved for issue.