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20 Centimes Essai

Issuer French Guiana
Year 1887
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Value 20 Centimes (0.20)
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Reverse lettering LIBERTÉ * JUSTICE 20 CENTs * 1887 *
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Mintage 1887
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Essais for French Guiana were never followed by regular coinage — the colony relied on mainland French issues and locally circulating foreign pieces throughout the nineteenth century. This 1887 piece was a pattern submission that went nowhere, leaving KM#E2 as one of a handful of trial strikings produced in Paris for a colonial monetary infrastructure that was never built.

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