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50 Centimes - Rainier III Piedfort Essai
| Issuer | Monaco |
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| Year | 1962 |
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| Composition | Gold (.920) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing effigy of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, rendered in high relief with fine detail to the hair and military collar insignia. The engraver's signature SIMON appears in small letters in the left field. The circular legend RAINIER III PRINCE DE MONACO arcs around the upper periphery, while the date 1962 is positioned in the exergue at the base of the portrait. |
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| Obverse lettering | RAINIER III PRINCE DE MONACO SIMON 1962 (Translation: Rainier III Prince of Monaco) |
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Piéforts are struck at double (or more) the standard planchet thickness specifically for official presentation and archival purposes — Monaco's practice of issuing them in multiple metals for a single type means the gold version of this essai exists in genuinely tiny quantities, produced for the Monégasque administration rather than any commercial channel. The principality's 1962 coinage program followed Rainier III's broader effort to modernize the monetary infrastructure after Monaco's 1961 monetary convention with France, which tied the franc zones together administratively.