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5 Centimes - Adolphe Essai
| Issuer | Grand Duchy of Luxembourg |
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| Year | 1901 |
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| Value | 5 Centimes (0.05 LUF) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Grand Duke Adolphe facing right, rendered in high relief with fine portrait detail. The legend ADOLPHE GRAND DUC DE LUXEMBOURG curves along the upper periphery. The engraver's signature A. MICHAUX appears below the truncation of the neck, with the date 1901 inscribed in the lower field flanked by decorative dots. The portrait conveys a naturalistic, academic style characteristic of late 19th-century Belgian and French medallic art. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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This is a pattern strike, not a circulating issue — "Essai" denotes an official trial piece submitted for approval, and Luxembourg's 1901 coinage reform generated several such pieces in metals that never reached production. The circulating 5 centimes of this period was struck in copper-nickel, making a silver essai at this weight an intentional departure, almost certainly produced to demonstrate die quality to the approving authority rather than to propose silver as the actual production metal.
Adolphe died in November 1905, and pieces bearing his name from this reform period saw limited production windows.