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5 centimes Essai en nickel de Merley, type I à 20 pans
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1905 |
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| Shape | 20-sided |
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| Reverse lettering | LIBERTE EGALITE FRATERNITE 5 CENTIMES A ESSAI |
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| Mintage | 1905 A |
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Merley's multi-sided trial designs for the French centime series were produced internally at the Monnaie de Paris as part of an extended competition to reform small-denomination coinage that dragged on for years without resolution. The type I twenty-panel variant represents one of the earlier geometric experiments, the faceted edge being a proposed anti-counterfeiting measure at a time when struck nickel blanks were relatively easy to fake with base-metal substitutes.
No type based on Merley's twenty-panel design ever reached circulation. GEM 12.4 places this among a sequence of rejected trials, most surviving in tiny quantities distributed to official archives or acquired directly by contemporary collectors through the Monnaie's own sales program.