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2 Francs Territoires sous mandat
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1924-1925 |
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| Value | 2 Francs |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Marianne facing left, her hair gathered in curls at the nape of the neck, adorned with a wreath of laurel branches extending prominently over the crown. The engraver's signature A.PATEY appears incuse in the lower left field. The circular legend RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE runs along the periphery, divided left and right of the effigy, with the date centered in the exergue below, all within a beaded border. |
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| Mintage | 1924 - - 750,000 1924 - ESSAI - 1925 - - 580,154 |
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France never formally colonized the former German and Ottoman territories assigned to it after World War I — the League of Nations mandate system required a legal fiction of trusteeship rather than outright possession. A separate coinage was accordingly struck for these territories, covering French Cameroon, Togo, Syria, Lebanon, and several smaller mandates, rather than circulating standard metropolitan French issues. The Monnaie de Paris produced this aluminium bronze series for only two years before individual mandate territories began receiving more administratively specific coinages.