5 Centimes Lindauer Epreuve uniface d'avers en bronze argenté

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.