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1 Franc - Mohammed V
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | Franc (1910-1959) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination numeral 1 is prominently displayed at centre, with the Arabic word فرنك (franc) immediately above it and the Latin legend FRANC below. Flanking the central numeral are dual dating inscriptions: to the left, AN / 1945 in Latin, and to the right, عام / 1364 in Arabic, denoting the Gregorian and Hijri years respectively. A continuous Arabic legend السكة المحمدية الشريفة (The Mohammedan Sherifian Mint) curves around the upper and lower periphery, while the engraver's signature J. HAINAUT appears in small letters at the lower left of the field. |
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Mohammed V had been installed by the French Protectorate administration in 1927 as a ruler they expected to be compliant. By 1945, when this franc was struck, that calculation was already unraveling — he had refused to sign Vichy legislation during the occupation and was quietly aligning himself with the Istiqlal independence movement. Coins bearing his name were thus, from the French perspective, an awkward necessity.
The aluminium-bronze composition reflects wartime and postwar metal constraints that reshaped coinage across the entire French colonial system in this period.