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Pattern in bronze at 2 Francs module Gengembre process
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1800 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing bust of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, the celebrated French chemist, rendered in a finely detailed neoclassical style with curled hair tied at the nape. The engraver's signature ANDRIEU F. appears below the truncation of the neck. A beaded inner border frames the design, with the circular legend reading ANT. LAUR. LAVOISIER. distributed around the periphery of the field. |
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| Reverse description | Plain field bearing a six-line French inscription in bold capital letters, centered within the coin's surface and enclosed by a beaded inner border. The text commemorates Philippe Gengembre's experimental effort in Year 9 of the French Republican calendar to improve coinage manufacture through his proprietary process. The overall composition is typographic, with no figurative imagery, emphasizing the documentary character of this pattern piece. |
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| Mintage | 1800 - (fr) An 9 |
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