The Republic on the left, under the features of a sower draped and topped with a Phrygian cap, with long hair, walking and sowing against the wind; in the background, behind the sower on the right, a rising sun; below, in hollow O. ROTY .
Obverse lettering
REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
ESSAI
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
5 / FRANCS between horn and owl, above a bunch of wheat ears, an olive branch loaded with fruits, an oak branch and a poppy, the year under the bunch.
