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5 Francs Piedfort with Essai

Features

Issuer France
Period Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944-1946)
Type Patterns
Year 1945
Value 5 Francs
Currency Franc (1795-1959)
Composition Aluminium
Weight 7 g
Diameter 31 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized 1 October 1966
Number
N#
370822
References KM# PE311
Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).
, GEM# 145.EP
Michel Taillard, Michel Arnaud; 2014. Essais Monétaires et Piéforts Français 1870-2001. Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco, Monaco.

Series: 5 francs Lavrillier

Obverse

Laureate head left

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPUBLIQVE FRANÇAISE
A.LAVRILLIER

Translation: French Republic

Designer: André-Henri Lavrillier

Reverse

The denomination above date within sectioned wreath with the mintmark below the lowest of the seven ║ in the design

Script: Latin

Lettering:
RF
5
FRANCS
1945
ESSAI

Designer: André-Henri Lavrillier

Edge

Plain

Mint

Mintmark of Monnaie de Paris Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date)

Mark

Wing Lucien Bazor, General coin engraver, Monnaie de Paris (1931-1958)

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC References
1945  Wing 104 GEM# 145.EP
Michel Taillard, Michel Arnaud; 2014. Essais Monétaires et Piéforts Français 1870-2001. Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco, Monaco.

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