5 Centimes Marianne Piéfort cupro-aluminium-nickel

Features

Issuer	France
Ruling authority	Fifth Republic (1958-date)
Type	Patterns
Years	1973-1975
Value	5 Centimes (0.05 FRF)
Currency	New franc (1960-2001)
Composition	Copper-aluminium-nickel
Weight	4 g
Diameter	17 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 166243
References	Franc 2014# 125P Stéphane Desrousseaux, Michel Prieur, Laurent Schmitt; 2014. Le Franc: Les Monnaies (10th Edition). Les Chevau-Légers, Paris, France. , Gigante# 174P Fabio Gigante; 2024. Gigante 2025: catalogo nazionale delle monete italiane dal'700 all'Euro (33rd Edition). Gigante Editore, Varese, Italy.

Series: 5 centimes Marianne

Obverse

Dressed bust of the Republic with long hair on the left, hair and collar ribbons in the wind, wearing a Phrygian cap; in the field, in front of the neck in the left field LAGRIFFOUL.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE.
LAGRIFFOUL

Engraver: Henri Lagriffoul

Reverse

In two lines in the field, framed by the different, above 1973, the whole contained in a laurel branch and an ear of wheat; to the left of the laurel branch, against the scroll, A. DIEUDONNE.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
LIBERTE - EGALITE / - FRATERNITE -.
5 / CENTIMES
1973
A. DIEUDONNE

Engraver: Adrien Dieudonné

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