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It says

"Mont Cenis
Overcoat
Design letter
Intent
Guarantee
October 21
1884"

What is that??!

 

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[trikikiwi]

What can you tell us about Mont Cenis?
Cheers, Mike

 

[vpnavy]

I searched google and found a bunch of references to a Mont Cenis Tunnel (Italy) which would explain the picture of a tunnel on your coin. Now, on "The progress of invention in the nineteenth century" it stated: The Mont Cenis Tunnel was constructed to establish railway communication between France and Italy through the Alps.

 

[Mackaydon]

I'm guessing it's a clothing tag that has little to do with the tunnel itself since the tunnel was completed years before the date on the tag.
Don........

 

[2screwed]

I agree with Mackaydon that it's a product tag. The tag could have been used on any number of products and I'm not sure it's a clothing tag. The Mont Cenis region also had coal mines. One of the by-products when coal is processed into coke or was gasified into coal gas (used for around 150 years) is coal tar. Coal tar is used in a lot of products from topcoats and sealers to medicine. Coal tar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mont Cenis process is used for the production of ammonia.
So just between coal tar and ammonia there are a lot of products the tag could have been used on.