v37_1458 - FRENCH STATE - MOROCCO UNDER FRENCH PROTECTORATE Essai de 50 centimes 1942 Paris

FRENCH STATE - MOROCCO UNDER FRENCH PROTECTORATE Essai de 50 centimes 1942 Paris MS

MONNAIES 37 (2009)
Starting price : 40.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 246.00 €
Number of bids : 6
Maximum bid : 700.00 €

Type : Essai de 50 centimes

Date: 1942

Mint name / Town : Paris

Quantity minted : 1100

Metal : bronze-aluminium

Diameter : 17,98 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 2,01 g.

Edge : lisse

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Sortant de frappe, joli brillant, peut-être quelques traces de doigts sur le revers, début de patine

Catalogue references :

Lec.217

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Pierre-2

Obverse

Obverse legend : EN FRANÇAIS ET EN ARABE EMPIRE .MAROC. CHERIFIEN.

Obverse description : autour d’une étoile alaouite et d’arabesques.

Reverse

Reverse legend : EN FRANÇAIS ET EN ARABE , 50/ CENTIMES/ AN/ 1942/ ESSAI, EN ARABE SEULEMENT : FRAPPE DE LA NOBLE DYNASTIE, ISSUE DE MAHOMET, EN L’AN DE L’HÉGIRE 1361.

Reverse description : Textes sur un champ vierge.

Historical background

FRENCH STATE - MOROCCO UNDER FRENCH PROTECTORATE

During the Second World War, Sultan Mohamed Ben Youssef (Mohamed V), Sultan of the Cherifian Kingdom since 1927, undertook to protect all Moroccan Jews against the Vichy regime. He also gave his support to "Free France" and supported the organization and recruitment of French forces in Africa. In 1942, the Allies landed in Casablanca. In 1943, the Istiqlal (independence) party was founded by Moroccan nationalists. Morocco pays a heavy price in the European war: 25,000 men died to liberate France.