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20 Francs - Marshal of France Philippe Pétain Essai de Vézien
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 20 Francs |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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This is a pattern piece — an essai — submitted by the sculptor Alexandre Vézeien as a proposal for France's wartime coinage under the Vichy regime. It was never adopted for circulation. The Vichy government ultimately issued the 20 Francs in aluminum-bronze rather than copper-nickel, and Pétain's coinage program itself replaced the Republican "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" with "Travail, Famille, Patrie" — the ideological rebranding made visible in pocket change.
Essais of this type were struck in very limited numbers, primarily for archival and approval purposes.