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Message:: [QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1560122, member: 29751"]Hi Kforbes, The coin you posted looks like a regular circulation strike version of the 1950 Monaco 100 Francs coin.  It is KM# 133 (in the Krause Standard Catalog of World Coins) and had a mintage of 500,000 coins.  It is minted in copper-nickel and is worth around $20 in gem uncirculated condition.  Yours looks to have a little wear, but still a very cool coin. The other coins you are finding in your book with really low mintages are the Essai coins (essentially pattern strikes) and Piefort Essai coins (essentially, pattern strike coins but struck on metal with twice the normal thickness).  Namely, KM# E34 (silver) and E35 (gold) and KM# PE9 (silver) and PE9a (gold).  These have very low mintages of 500 (Essai) or 325 (Piefort-Essai) pieces.  There is also an Essai copper-nickel coin struck in a mintage of 1,700 for the 100 Francs (it will look just like yours but will be a very strong strike).  ALL of the essai and piefort-essai pieces will have the word "ESSAI" in very small letters under the horse, but above the "100" on the reverse.  I don't see that on yours, but the picture is pretty small. I hope this helps.  I will leave you with a picture of my 1950 Essai 100 Francs piece (mintage 500) graded SP65 by PCGS.  You can see the word "ESSAI" on the reverse under the horse and above "100". [ATTACH]210861.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]