W. C a r e w H a z l i t t Coinage of the European Continent

Descriptive Outline of the Coinages of Europe 483
The want of small denominations seems to have been
felt, even with the possibility that the colonial money was
current in France, or that a certain residuum was left of
the large republican output, and in 1840 appeared a decime
with the portrait and title of Louis Philippe I., and on
reverse Refonte Des Monnaies De Cuivre.
of this movement we hear no more.
Strangely enough,
Revolution of 1848
: 10 centimes. Lead.
The features of interest associated with Napoleon III.
are restricted to his rather scarce coinage as President, 1852,
particularly the pattern 5 francs, which Barre first submitted,
the settlement of the bronze currency on a convenient basis,
and the historical anticlimax signified by the resort to the
Brussels mint for the 5 francs of 1870. The 5 and 10
francs in gold were first introduced in this reign, and the
former was doubtless suggested by the American dollar, of
which it even followed the two types or modules. The
partizans of the Bonaparte family thought fit in 1874 to
issue a small coinage in the name of Napoleon IV., the
colourless young man, who perished in Africa in 1879.
We have at present to retrace our steps a little to consider
a branch of the question to which recent allusion has
been made. Toward the close of the seventeenth century, when
we begin to lose sight of the Franco -Italian and Franco -
Spanish money, noticed elsewhere, we become cognisant of
a third class or group of productions, demonstrating the
anxiety of France or its rulers to find an outlet for their
energy in other quarters and in a different field. About
1 700 the mint struck a Hard for Canada with Dovble de