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1 Franc - Mohammed V Pattern
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1951 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse lettering | الدولة المغربية EMPIRE .MAROC. CHERIFIEN |
| Reverse description | The large numeral '1' dominates the centre of the field, flanked symmetrically by dual dating: to the left, 'An' above the Gregorian year '1951', and to the right, the Arabic 'عام' above the Hijri year '1370'. Above the numeral, the Arabic word 'فرنك' (franc) appears, while 'FRANC' is inscribed below. A bilingual circular legend in Arabic reading 'السكة المحمدية الشريفة' frames the upper and lower periphery of the field. The engraver's signature 'J.HAINAUT' appears in the lower left, accompanied by a small mint mark. |
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This is an essai — a pattern strike produced for official evaluation, not circulation. Morocco in 1951 was still a French protectorate, and Mohammed V had by this point become a focal point of nationalist resistance, which made his continued appearance on colonial coinage a politically loaded decision in Paris as much as Rabat. The French deposed and exiled him to Madagascar just two years later, in August 1953.
Gold patterns of this type were struck in extremely small quantities, typically for submission to the administration and for archival sets held by the Paris Mint.