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5 centimes - Honoré V essai
| Issuer | Monaco |
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| Year | 1838 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Prince Honoré V facing left, rendered in fine relief with carefully engraved hair and a short beard, in the neoclassical portrait style characteristic of Émile Rogat. The circumferential legend reads HONORE V PRINCE DE MONACO, disposed around the effigy. The engraver's signature E. ROGAT appears in small capitals below the truncation. The coin is bordered by a continuous inner ring of beading. |
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| Obverse lettering | HONORE V PRINCE DE MONACO E.ROGAT. |
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Honoré V ruled Monaco under perpetual financial strain, having inherited a principality nearly bankrupted by the loss of Menton and Roquebrune — towns that would formally secede in 1848 and eventually pass to France. This 1838 essai was part of a proposed coinage reform that never reached full production, leaving trial pieces as the only material evidence of the attempt.
Gad#MC110 is among the rarest Monaco copper essais catalogued by Gadoury.