Numismatic Puzzle: A 1850 French Centime
Today you can try your hand at a French centime of 1850. The reward is the obverse of this coin with freedom-loving Marianne!
You can find out why “Marianne” lost her Phrygian cap, the symbol of liberty, on the new coins of the French Second Republic of higher denominations in this article on the coin contest of 1848.