Wreathed female head facing left, lettering around edge both sides, engraver`s name behind head.
Obverse script
Latin
Obverse lettering
REPUBLIQVE FRANÇAISE
MORLON (Translation: French Republic)
Reverse description
A cornucopia on each side, lettering at top, value in middle with date below. Privy mark to right of date. If there is a B or C Mintmark it is in the gap between the two bases, below date.
Reverse script
Latin
Reverse lettering
LIBERTE-EGALITE
FRATERNITE
2
FRANCS
1958
Edge
Smooth
Mint
Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date) B Beaumont-le-Roger, France C Castelsarrasin, France(?-1946)
Mintage
1941 - Essai, struck during French Occupation - 1941 - KM#886a.1; cornucopia; wing mark, struck during French Occupation - 1944 - Essai - 1944 - KM#886a.1; cornucopia; wing mark - 1945 - KM#886a.1; cornucopia; wing mark - 16 636 896 1945 B - KM#886a.2 - 1 726 144 1945 C - KM#886a.3 - 1 164 705 1946 - KM#886a.1; cornucopia; wing mark - 34 462 877 1946 B - KM#886a.2 - 6 017 500 1947 - KM#886a.1; cornucopia; wing mark - 78 984 000 1947 B - KM#886a.2 - 26 219 500 1948 - KM#886a.1; cornucopia; wing mark - 32 354 500 1948 B - KM#886a.2 - 39 090 000 1949 - KM#886a.1; cornucopia; wing mark - 13 683 500 1949 B - KM#886a.2 - 23 955 000 1950 - KM#886a.1; cornucopia; wing mark - 12 590 508 1950 B - KM#886a.2 - 18 185 000 1958 - KM#886a.1; cornucopia; owl mark - 9 906 000 1959 - KM#886a.1; cornucopia; owl mark - 17 774 500