Piéforts are struck at double the normal planchet thickness as presentation or pattern pieces, and Morocco's 1945 essai series was produced in Paris at the Monnaie de Paris specifically for official submission and archival purposes. Mohammed V had been recognized by the French Protectorate as Sultan since 1927, though French authorities retained effective monetary control — these essais reflect that administrative overlap, produced by French engravers for a nominally independent sultanate.
Surviving examples are almost exclusively in mint state by default; piéfort essais never entered circulation.
Piéforts are struck at double the normal planchet thickness as presentation or pattern pieces, and Morocco's 1945 essai series was produced in Paris at the Monnaie de Paris specifically for official submission and archival purposes. Mohammed V had been recognized by the French Protectorate as Sultan since 1927, though French authorities retained effective monetary control — these essais reflect that administrative overlap, produced by French engravers for a nominally independent sultanate.
Surviving examples are almost exclusively in mint state by default; piéfort essais never entered circulation.