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1 Franc Pattern
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Weight | 5.3 g |
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| Reverse description | Central motif featuring a front-facing head of a rhim gazelle (Gazella leptoceros), a species indigenous to North Africa, rendered in high relief. The gazelle's head is flanked symmetrically by stylized tropical foliage and grape clusters, the latter arranged in a semicircular arc at the upper portion of the field. The denomination 1 F. appears prominently, with the circular legend TERRITOIRE DU CAMEROUN enclosing the design. |
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| Mintage | 1948 - - 2,000 |
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The 1948 French franc patterns were produced as Monnaie de Paris worked through a post-Liberation redesign of the coinage system, with multiple competing essais struck in different compositions before final production types were settled. This copper-nickel essai corresponds to a rejected specification — the circulating 1 franc that entered production that year was ultimately struck in aluminum, a material choice driven by postwar metal shortages and the economic constraints of the Fourth Republic's early months.