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20 Cents Pattern

Issuer Monnaie de Paris
Year 1937
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Value 20 Cents (20 centièmes) (0.20 ICFP)
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Obverse description Seated allegorical figure of Marianne facing left, radiate-crowned and draped in classical robes, holding a fasces upright in her left hand while her right arm rests upon a support; a sheaf of grain appears to the left in the field, and an anchor is visible to the lower right. The circular legend REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE runs along the periphery, divided on either side of the effigy, with the date 1937 and the engraver's name BARRE inscribed in the exergue. The design is executed in the neoclassical style characteristic of the Paris Mint's late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century coinage.
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Reverse description The denomination 20 CENT. is displayed prominently in the centre of the field, with the word ESSAI (trial) inscribed above in smaller lettering. The central device is encircled by a wreath composed of oak and laurel branches tied with a ribbon at the base. The circular peripheral legend reads INDO-CHINE FRANCAISE, with the alloy fineness and weight specifications TITRE 0.680 POIDS 5 GR. 4 inscribed along the lower arc, separated by a central dot at the foot of the wreath.
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