Republique of Francaise silver coin bears a figure sowing seed.  This dime-sized coin was struck at Paris during the French Third Republic (1870-1940). It is a common date of a type struck 1897-1920. It is struck without mintmark and is the last type of fifty centimes to be struck in silver. Like all fifty centimes struck after 1864, the fineness was only .835. It was demonetized in 2005 but ceased to circulate in the 1920's. The catalog notes 27 dates for the type. The issues of 1897-1900 are without privy marks, which were added in 1901. 

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