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5 Francs - Jean
| Issuer | Luxembourg Monetary Institute |
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| Year | 1989-1995 |
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| Value | 5 Francs (5 LUF) |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing effigy of Grand Duke Jean (1921–2000) rendered in refined relief, with the truncation of the neck bearing the engraver's signature J.N. LEFEVRE. The portrait is encircled by the full dynastic and titular legend reading JEAN GRAND-DUC DE LUXEMBOURG. The field is plain, with the bust occupying the central portion of the flan in a restrained, formal style characteristic of mid-twentieth-century European coinage. |
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| Reverse description | The denomination 5 F is displayed prominently at centre, flanked on either side by the two-digit components of the year of issue, with the date split across the coin's horizontal axis. Below the denomination appears the monogram IML (Institut Monétaire Luxembourgeois — Luxembourg Monetary Institute) surmounted by the Grand-Ducal crown. The national name LËTZEBUERG is inscribed in the lower portion of the field, rendered in the Luxembourgish language. The overall design is clean and heraldic in character. |
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The Luxembourg Monetary Institute, rather than the Grand Duchy itself, served as the issuing authority for this series — a consequence of Luxembourg's long-standing monetary union with Belgium, which technically precluded the Grand Duchy from acting as an independent central bank. That arrangement, formalized in 1921 and restructured repeatedly over the decades, meant Luxembourg maintained only limited autonomous monetary infrastructure until the arrival of the euro effectively rendered the question moot.
The CuAlNi alloy used here was adopted partly to resist the corrosive effects of Luxembourg's industrial environment, where coinage circulated heavily in steel and mining communities.