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5 Francs - Mohammed V Piedfort Essai
| Issuer | Morocco |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central device features the Star of Solomon (hexagram) rendered in high relief against an elaborately tooled field of interlacing Arabesque foliate scrollwork. At the centre of the star, within an oval cartouche, appears the Hijri date 1365 in Eastern Arabic-Indic numerals. The upper border carries the Latin legend EMPIRE CHERIFIEN, while the lower border bears the Arabic royal titulature of Sultan Mohammed V in cursive script, all enclosed within a beaded inner circle. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Piéforts — struck at double or greater thickness on specially prepared planchets — were a French mint tradition used for official presentation and archival purposes, and the Paris Mint extended this practice to its colonial and protectorate issues. Morocco's 1946 piéfort essais were produced as trial and record pieces, not for circulation, at a moment when France's postwar monetary reorganization was reshuffling currency arrangements across its territories. Mohammed V had by this point been sultan for over a decade, though French administrative control over coin production remained absolute until independence a decade later.