5 Centimes

5 Centimes - obverse5 Centimes - reverse

© Jacques BLARD (CC BY-NC-SA)

Features

Location France
Period Third Republic (1870-1940)
Type Trade tokens › Wage token
Year 1914
Value 5 Centimes (0.05)
Currency Franc (1795-1959)
Composition Aluminium
Weight 0.84 g
Diameter 19 mm
Shape Octagonal (8-sided)
Technique Milled
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
276354
References El Mon.# 10.3
Roland Élie; 2003. Monnaies de nécessité et jetons-monnaie : France, colonies, Monaco : 1800-2000. Association des Collectionneurs de Jetons-monnaie, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

Obverse

Issuer's name around the date, in a circular grid.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ARÇONNERIE F.SE
1914

Unabridged legend: Arçonnerie Française

Reverse

Face value in an octagonal grenetis.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering: 5c-

Unabridged legend: 5 centimes

Comments

L'Arçonnerie Française is a saddlery company set up in Saint-Sulpice (Tarn) in 1911. It employed up to 350 workers. After the Second World War, the company diversified into new technologies. In 1997, it left the Saint-Sulpice site, which was decommissioned in 2006.Automatically translated

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1914 

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