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1929, France (3rd Republic). Aluminum-Bronze Pattern 20 Francs (ESSAI) Coin. R!

Mint Year: 1929
Denomination: Pattern 20 Francs (ESSAI)
Reference: KM-E50 (ESSAI in Alu-Bronze of the realized KM-879 Cu-Ni issue!).
Condition: Minor spots, otherwise a nice XF-AU!
Material: Aluminum-Bronze
Weight: 17.47gm
Diameter: 35mm

Obverse: Laureate female head right, wearing phrygian cap of the Revolution.
Legend: REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE

Reverse: Denomination numeral (20) above denomination (FRANCS) and date (1929), which is flanked by privy marks and wheat-sprays. Inscription and ESSAI marking below.
Legend: 20 / FRANCS / (privy mark) 1929 (privy mark) / LIBERTE EGALITE FRATERNITE / ESSAI

Authenticity unconditionally guaraneed.

The French Third Republic (1870-10 July 1940) was the political regime of France between the Second French Empire and the Vichy Regime. It was a republican parliamentary democracy that was created on 4 September 1870 following the collapse of the Empire of Napoleon III in the Franco-Prussian War. It survived until the invasion of France by the German Third Reich in 1940. Adolphe Thiers recognized as "le Libérateur du Territoire", and who rallied himself to the Republic in the 1870s, called republicanism in the 1870s "the form of government that divides France least." The Third Republic was France's longest lasting régime since before the 1789 French Revolution.

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