2 Centimes Cérès Epreuve en maillechort

Features

Issuer France
Period Third Republic (1870-1940)
Type Pattern
Year 1883
Value 2 Centimes (0.02)
Currency Franc (1795-1959)
Composition Nickel silver
Weight 2.5 g
Diameter 20 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
197762
References GEM# 5.4
Michel Taillard, Michel Arnaud; 2014. Essais Monétaires et Piéforts Français 1870-2001. Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco.

Obverse

Head of the Republic on the left as Ceres, goddess of the harvest, wearing a pearl necklace, a double chignon and a composite crown of wheat, flowers, olives, oaks and acorns, tied with a ribbon that descends over the neck and passes over the forehead where it bears an indistinct inscription, all within a grenetis.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
* REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE *
1883
OUDINE

Engraver: Eugène-André Oudiné

Reverse

In two lines in the field, above the studio letter A framed by the various; all in a grenetis pattern.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
LIBERTÉ * ÉGALITÉ * FRATERNITÉ *
2
CENTIMES
A

Engraver: Eugène-André Oudiné

Edge

Plain

Mint

A Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
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