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The franc (/ f r æ ŋ k /; French: franc français, [fʁɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ]; sign: F or Fr), [n 2] also commonly distinguished as the French franc (FF), was a currency of France.Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money.
The 1921 monetary union of Belgium and Luxembourg survived and formed the basis for full economic union in 1932. Like the French franc, the Belgian and Luxembourg francs ceased to exist on 1 January 1999, when they became fixed at 1 EUR = 40.3399 BEF/LUF, thus a Belgian or Luxembourg franc was worth €0.024789.
In 1964, coins were introduced for 1, 5 and 10 francs, with the 1 and 10 francs in cupronickel and the 5 francs in bronze. In 1969, aluminium 1 franc coins were introduced, followed in 1970 by 1 ⁄ 2 and 2 francs also in aluminium. A reduced sized copper-nickel 10 franc coin was issued in 1974. Brass 20 and 50 francs were introduced in 1977.
The 20 franc coin was produced from 1897 to 1949 with a total issue of 58.6 million pieces. It replaced an earlier design of gold coin minted from 1883 to 1896. The 10 franc version was minted from 1911 to 1922 (total issue 2.6 million pieces), and the 100 franc version was minted in 1925 only (total issue 5,000 pieces).
20 franc coin of 1890 Vreneli head in the final design of 1897 The CHF 25 and CHF 50 coins planned in the 1950s. CHF 50: The Three Confederates based on the 1914 statue by James Vibert, legend In nomine Domini. CHF 25: The figure of William Tell based on the 1897 painting by Ferdinand Hodler, legend In armis libertas et pax.
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French Republican Calendar of 1794, drawn by Philibert-Louis Debucourt. The French Republican calendar (French: calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and ...
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