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5 Cents Essai Pattern Probe Test

Issuer Guernsey
Year 2004
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Shape Round
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Obverse lettering GUERNSEY
2004
ESSAI PATTERN PROBE TEST
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Edge Plain
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Produced as part of the pre-accession testing program ahead of potential Eurozone integration, this copper essai was struck by Pobjoy Mint to evaluate specifications for a hypothetical Guernsey euro coinage. Guernsey, as a Crown Dependency, was never actually obligated to adopt the euro and never did — making the entire series a bureaucratic exercise that produced collectible dead-ends rather than circulating currency.

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