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50 Centimes Essai, incuse design
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1948 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ETABLISSEMENTS FRANÇAIS DE L'OCEANIE 50 CENTIMES 1948 |
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The 1948 French coinage reform followed Liberation-era monetary chaos and the need to establish a stable Republican identity divorced from both Vichy and the provisional government's stopgap issues. Essais — official trial strikes produced by the Monnaie de Paris for submission and approval — were struck in limited numbers for internal review and are catalogued separately from circulation issues precisely because most never progressed further.
This incuse design was ultimately rejected. The bronze-nickel alloy itself was experimental for the denomination at this date.