10 Francs - Mohammed V Pattern

This piece is a pattern (essai) produced in Paris ahead of a currency reform that never fully materialized under the French Protectorate — Mohammed V was deposed and exiled to Madagascar just one year later, in 1953, making any planned circulation coinage politically impossible. The exile backfired spectacularly on the French administration; it galvanized Moroccan nationalist sentiment and accelerated independence, which came in 1956.

Pattern strikings of this type were produced in small quantities for submission and archival purposes, not distribution.