Essai strikes for this issue were produced in Paris in 1953, the final year before the French Protectorate authorities exiled Mohammed V to Madagascar — a miscalculation that transformed him overnight from a constitutional nuisance into a nationalist martyr. The Protectorate never saw a circulation issue follow. Independence came in 1956, and with it an entirely new coinage under the same monarch.
Essai strikes for this issue were produced in Paris in 1953, the final year before the French Protectorate authorities exiled Mohammed V to Madagascar — a miscalculation that transformed him overnight from a constitutional nuisance into a nationalist martyr. The Protectorate never saw a circulation issue follow. Independence came in 1956, and with it an entirely new coinage under the same monarch.