Here is another great French coin design by Dupuis. OB; 'REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE - DANIEL-DUPUIS' [Engraver: Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis] Rx: Allegorical figure of the French Republic with her child. Inscription "LIBERTE EGALITE FRATERNITE - 10c - DANIEL-DUPUIS 1916. This is the most common year, during WWI, of a series that ran from 1898 to 1921, with the exception of the WWI years if 1918 & 19. However, undesignated (yet) by NGC is the fact that this scarcer variety has a * STAR indicating this scarcer variety was minted in the WWI years at MADRID, Spain. Scarcer year high grade examples are highly sought after in France. This example, which is much better in hand than the photo indicates is in an NGC holder graded MS64RB (looks ~98% red to me); photo color is off.
Republic of France. Marianne as Liberty, obverse, with representation of France protecting a child on the reverse.
Article on Marianne from the "Cosmos of Collectables": https://cosmosofcollectibles.com/the-french-marianne-i-marianne-as-a-representative-of-the-french-people-part-1/
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France - 10 Centimes 1916 Marianne
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