5 Centimes - Honoré V small head

Honoré V ruled Monaco under French July Monarchy oversight, a period of considerable tension between the Grimaldi family and their restive subjects in Menton and Roquebrune — towns that would formally secede from Monegasque rule just over a decade later. The principality's copper coinage of this period was struck in extremely limited quantities befitting a microstate of Monaco's size, and the two-year window of this particular small-head variety reflects an almost immediate dissatisfaction with the portrait die.

The KM#95.2a designation separates it from the large-head type of the same denomination, a distinction that matters considerably to completists working through the Honoré V series.