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The French Second Republic was a short-lived republican government of France under President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. It lasted from the 1848 Revolution to the 1851 coup by which the president made himself Emperor Napoleon III and initiated the Second Empire.
Engraver: Eugène André Oudiné
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Depicts a laureate head of Ceres to the left, wearing a pearl necklace, a double bun and a composite crown of wheat, flowers, olive, oak and acorns, knotted with a ribbon descending on the neck and passing over the forehead where the word CONCOR is inscribed; under the slice of the neck engraver's name. Surrounded by the country name topped by a six-pointed star. REPUBLIQUE * FRANÇAISE. |
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Denomination within oak wreath surrounded by the national motto of France (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity). The mintmark below is between privy marks of the Engraver General (Jacques-Jean Barre, 1843-1855, dog’s head) and Mint Director (Charles-Louis Dierickx, 1845-1860, hand). LIBERTE • EGALITE • FRATERNITE |
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