- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | DB05-0122 |
| Description: | 1 Franc |
| Country or State: | Luxembourg |
| Year: | 1977 |
| Head of State/Ruler: | Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg |
| Reign: | 12 November 1964 – 7 October 2000 |
| Currency: | Franc (1854-2001) |
| Obverse: | Portrait to the left of Jean (1921-), Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1964 to 2000 surrounded by the legend and the signature of the engravers |
| Obverse Legend: | JEAN GRAND-DUC DE LUXEMBOURG, J N LEFEVRE |
| Reverse: | Face value surrounded by a stylized laurel wreath, surmounted by a royal crown, below the mint year |
| Reverse Legend: | 1 F, 1977 |
| Edge: | Reeded |
| Engravers: | Julien and Nina Lefèvre |
| Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Composition: | Copper-Nickel |
| Diameter: | 21.0 mm |
| Thickness: | 1.62 mm |
| Weight: | 3.8900 grams |
| Mintage: | 1,000,000 |
| Catalog Number: | KM# 55, L# 305 |
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Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (given names: Jean Benoît Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc d'Aviano; born 5 January 1921) ruled Luxembourg from 1964 to 2000. He is the father of the current ruler, Grand Duke Henri, and the son of Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma. Among his godparents was Pope Benedict XV, who gave him his second name |