50 Francs - Mohammed V

By 1952, Mohammed V was nominally on the throne but effectively sidelined — French colonial administration controlled fiscal policy entirely, and this coin was issued under the "Cherifian Empire" designation that Paris preferred precisely because it obscured the sultanate's independent sovereignty. The following year, French authorities exiled Mohammed V to Madagascar, making this one of the final issues struck under his name before a two-year interregnum in Moroccan coinage.

His return in 1955 and Moroccan independence in 1956 followed shortly after, at which point the franc-denominated series was abandoned altogether in favor of the dirham system introduced in 1960.