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5 Centimes - Louis Philippe I pattern of Barre
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1840 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of King Louis Philippe I facing left, his hair elaborately styled with an oak-leaf wreath tied at the nape with a ribbon. The engraver's name BARRE appears incuse at the base of the truncation. The circular legend reads LOUIS PHILIPPE I ROI DES FRANÇAIS, distributed around the periphery. The entire design is enclosed within a fine beaded border. |
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| Mintage | ND (1840) - (fr) VG2917 Var. - 27,5 mm - 1840 - (fr) VG2917 - 26 mm - 1840 - (fr) VG2917 - 27.5 mm - |
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Barre's 1840 pattern coinages were produced as part of a broader push to modernize French minor coinage under Louis-Philippe, whose July Monarchy had inherited a fragmented and visually inconsistent currency system from the Restoration. Jean-Jacques Barre had been appointed engraver general at the Monnaie de Paris in 1834 and used pattern commissions to develop the neoclassical idiom that would eventually define mid-century French coinage. This piece never reached circulation — the existing centimes types were retained — making survivors almost exclusively cabinet pieces from the outset.