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25 Francs Union française Essai
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1956 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#E8 |
| Obverse description | Left-facing effigy of Marianne with elaborately styled curled hair adorned with a radiate crown or sunburst ornament, rendered in high relief. The engraver's signature G. B. BAZOR appears at the truncation of the neck. The circular legend REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE is inscribed along the left periphery and UNION FRANÇAISE along the right periphery, both reading upward. The date 1956 appears at the base of the coin between two small decorative elements. |
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| Mint | Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date) |
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The Union française — the constitutional framework that replaced the French Empire in 1946 — was already fracturing by 1956. Dien Bien Phu had fallen two years earlier, Morocco and Tunisia were newly independent, and the Algerian War had begun. Essai pieces like this one were produced as official trial strikes by the Monnaie de Paris for proposed circulating coinage, but this denomination never entered production for general circulation, leaving the essai as the only struck form it takes.