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Plate - Electro letterpress - 1871 5 centavos, Hotel des Monnaies (French Government Mint) letterpress copper plate (10x15, in two parts 10x10 and 10x5 - the lower half is illustrated here from the reverse to show the back of the plate) , having inverted clichés in sheet positions [R1/10] and [R12/3], and substituted clichés at [R2/8], [R7/6], [R8/3] and [R12/2], mounted on board. Guatemala. Engraved by F. Joubert. Stone: '1871 Issue. Copper electrotypes made in Paris at the Hotel de la Monnaie.