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5 Francs - Pétain
| Issuer | État Français (Vichy France) |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 5 Francs |
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| Obverse lettering | PHILIPPE PETAIN MARECHAL DE FRANCE + CHEF DE L'ETAT + L. BAZOR |
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| Reverse lettering | TRAVAIL FAMILLE 5 F. PATRIE |
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Vichy's 1941 coinage program represented a deliberate break from Third Republic issues, with the new État Français replacing Marianne and republican iconography as part of Pétain's National Revolution. Copper-nickel was retained for this denomination, but that would change: wartime metal demands led to the abandonment of copper-nickel for most French coinage by 1942, making this a transitional issue with only a single year of production in this composition.