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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;expat, post: 7622851, member: 111067&quot;]An interesting read when looking at this coin. The Vichy France government (South France and North Africa) was a puppet of Nazi Germany from 1943-1944 until the allies took control. As far as I can make out, the dies for the aluminium issue were produced at the Paris mint, as evidenced on the reverse bottom left of the date. The 2 different mintmarks B or C would have then been added by the mints of&nbsp; </p><p>B <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/mint.php?id=72" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/mint.php?id=72" rel="nofollow">Beaumont-le-Roger</a>, France</p><p>C <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/mint.php?id=74" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/mint.php?id=74" rel="nofollow">Castelsarrasin</a>, France</p><p>as required, so I assume there would be a small difference in position, the same way that the MM position changes on US currency while they were being hand-punched into existing dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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