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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stork, post: 7757913, member: 71642&quot;]I used to actively collect all the 4th Republic French Territory coins.&nbsp; Many of them, St.Pierre&amp;Miquelon, French Somalia, French West Africa, Madagascar, etc had three varieties.&nbsp; Circulation (aluminum primarily in the 1940s, bronzy stuff for some places in the 1950s), regular Essais (mostly cupronickel), and piedfort Essais in aluminum.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The mintages were, as noted above, about 1000ish for the regular essai, and 100ish for the piedfort version.&nbsp; And yes, the essai coins were the same design as the circulation, but minted to a higher standard (and in a different metal and/or thickness) for collectors.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I sold the vast majority of any essais I had and stuck to the ciruculation versions.&nbsp; Kind of miss them sometimes, but oh well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly I am woefully deficient in my photography of these, and no longer own the essais for the most part (I kept St. Pierre&amp;Miquelon, but that&#039;s not in Africa so I will not post the photos here).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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