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5 Francs type Tiolier with 'I', Hybrid, hollow edge
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1831 |
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| Value | 5 Francs |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of King Louis-Philippe I facing right, with naturalistically rendered curly hair, engraved by Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier. The portrait is finely modelled in high relief, conveying a dignified yet approachable likeness consistent with the July Monarchy's civic aesthetic. The encircling legend reads LOUIS PHILIPPE I to the left and ROI DES FRANÇAIS to the right, separated by the truncation of the neck at the coin's lower field. A toothed border frames the entire design. |
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| Edge | Lettered (hollow) |
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The 1831 French 5 francs coinage was a period of genuine transitional chaos. The July Monarchy had just displaced Charles X, and the mint was simultaneously managing portrait changeovers, edge type experiments, and die inventory from the previous reign. This particular hybrid — pairing the Tiolier obverse punch with the wrong reverse or edge combination — emerged from that administrative scramble rather than any deliberate design decision.
The hollow edge variant is the rarer of the edge types for this marriage of dies. Garnier's research on the series identifies these hybrids as products of expediency, not policy.