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100 Francs - Rainier III Piedfort Essai
| Issuer | Monaco |
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| Year | 1956 |
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| Reference(s) | Gad#MC143 |
| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of Prince Rainier III facing left, rendered in high relief with fine detail to the hair. The engraver's name LAGRIFFOUL appears in small letters below the truncation, with the date 1956 immediately beneath. The surrounding legend arcs along the upper and left periphery of the coin, separated from the central effigy by a raised rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | RAINIER III PRINCE DE MONACO LAGRIFFOUL 1956 (Translation: Rainier III Prince of Monaco Lagriffoul 1956) |
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Piéforts are double-thickness trial strikes produced for official presentation and archival purposes — Monaco's mid-century issues of this type were distributed in small quantities to government officials and the Monnaie de Paris's own reference collection. The 1956 date places this squarely in the period following Rainier III's 1949 accession, when the principality was actively renegotiating its monetary relationship with France under the Franco-Monegasque treaty framework.
Surviving examples outside institutional hands are genuinely scarce.