FRANCE - FRANCE Second Republic (1848-1852). Test-piece of 10 centimes, 1848 competition, first type by Gayrard 1848, Paris. FRENCH REPUBLIC. Head of the Republic, facing, wearing a laurel wreath and wearing the lion's headdress; above, a radiating star. Rv. LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ. Within a wreath formed of a laurel branch and an oak branch: 10 CENTIMES (date). G.227P - Maz.1325a ; Bronze - 35.15 g - 30 mm - 6 h Top Pop: the only graded example! NGC MS 64 RB (6642260-037). In bronze. Edge in relief : + CONCOURS / MONETAIRE / + PIEFORT. With most of its original red colour. Superb in Fleur de coin.