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2 Francs
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1948 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Front-facing head of a rhim gazelle (Gazella leptoceros) depicted in high relief at the center of the field, flanked symmetrically by stylized leafy plant sprigs. A semicircular garland of grapes and foliage arcs across the upper portion of the design. The territorial denomination and issuing authority legend encircle the composition. |
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| Mintage | 1948 - - 5,000,000 |
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France emerged from the Occupation with its monetary system in ruins. The postwar aluminum coinage — lightweight, cheap to produce, and rushed into circulation — was a direct consequence of the country's depleted metal reserves and the need to rebuild a functioning currency infrastructure almost from scratch. Aluminum had been a wartime expedient adopted by occupied France under German direction, and the Fourth Republic simply continued what the war had made necessary.
The 1948 date places this piece in the first full year of the Fourth Republic's constitutional operation.