France 1996 10 centimes

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This specimen is from a type struck at the Paris mint for France 1962-2001 and shares a design with the five and twenty centimes. All were demonetized with the coming of the euro in 2002.

Recorded mintage: 179,981,000^[2] + 8,000 proofs.

Specification: aluminum bronze, 20 mm diameter, 3 g, plain edge, designed by Henri Lagriffoul (1907-81) and Adrien Dieudonné (1912-82).

Catalog reference: F.144/40, KM 929.

Source:

• Gadoury, Victor, Monnaies Françaises, 1789-2019, 24me éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 2019.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[2]Prieur, Michel, and Laurent Schmitt, Le Franc 10: Les Monnaies, Paris: Éditions les Chevau-légers, 2014.

Link to:

• 1994 10 centimes
• 1996 5 francs
• 1996 50 francs, World Cup of soccer
• 1996 500 francs/75 euro, Grand Place of Brussels
• 1996 500 francs/75 euro, Rodin's The Thinker
• 1996 500 francs/75 euro, Michelangelo's David
• 1997 500 francs/75 euro, Michelangelo's David
• Coins and currency dated 1996
• return to French ten centimes, 1795-2001