Morocco 1942 50 centimes KM-PEA1

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from Stephen Album sale 32, lot 1507
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This specimen was lot 1507 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $164.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "MOROCCO: Mohammed V, 1927-1961, 50 centimes, 1942/1361, KM-PE-A1, Lec-216, piéfort ESSAI, mintage of 104 pieces at the Paris mint, prooflike surfaces, Brilliant Unc, R." This pattern of 1942 was struck in regular thickness (KM E28) and a piedfort (KM PEA1, shown here). This design did not go into production until 1945 as Y40. Pattern one and two francs were also struck in 1942.

Recorded mintage: 175 plus 250 of the regular thickness (KM E28)[2].

Specification: aluminum bronze.

Catalog reference: KM-29.1.

Source:

  • [2]Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.

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