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ESSAI DE FRAPPE 1946

Features

Issuer France
Period Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944-1946)
Type Patterns
Year 1946
Value 20 Francs
Currency Franc (1795-1959)
Composition Zinc
Weight 3.64 g
Diameter 24 mm
Thickness 1.7 mm
Shape Round with a round hole
Technique Milled
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
35415
References GEM# 54.5
Michel Taillard, Michel Arnaud; 2014. Essais Monétaires et Piéforts Français 1870-2001. Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco, Monaco.
, Gad 1789# 319 var.
Éditions Victor Gadoury (publisher). Monnaies françaises (Gadoury). Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco, Monaco (9 volumes).

Obverse

Legend around the central holeAutomatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
1946
ESSAI DE FRAPPE

Reverse

Legend around the central holeAutomatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
1946
ESSAI DE FRAPPE

Edge

Plain

Comments

CGB indicates that this "Strike test absent from the work of Mazard and Gadoury although the latter mentions a similar test in the year 1942. This assay is also missing from the Kolsky Collection" and that its degree of rarity is R3.
The GEM indicates that this coin is known in a few examples.Automatically translated

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1946 

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