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5 Centimes Lindauer Epreuve uniface d'avers en bronze argenté
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 5 Centimes (0.05) |
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| Obverse lettering | RF |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely blank and smooth, as befits a uniface trial strike (épreuve uniface). The plain flan surface bears no design, lettering, or decorative elements, with only the central circular hole visible. The rim on this side is raised and unadorned, confirming the piece was struck solely to test the obverse die. The smooth reverse is characteristic of this category of French pattern coinage from the early twentieth century. |
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The Lindauer 5 centimes design was adopted in 1914, the work of Émile Lindauer whose female head would go on to serve French coinage for decades — but production was overtaken almost immediately by the outbreak of war in August. What exists from 1914 are largely trial and proof-related pieces rather than a true circulation run. This uniface avers trial in silver-plated bronze is the kind of internal Monnaie de Paris specimen produced to evaluate obverse die quality before committing to full production that, in this case, never meaningfully happened.