Draped bust of Marianne to left, wearing a Phrygian cap and an oak and olive wreath. Signed MORLON., Graded PCGS MS65 #55909769. Dated by PCGS in 1930, but we maintain our estimation of a production date in 1929 or possibly early 1930, definitely before the modification of the type with the addition of the cockade. Unpulished and previously unknown coin prototype, missing from the GEM or the Carles-Jongues collection, of the highest rarity. We believe it is a uniface prototype for the 5 Franc coin created by the engraver Morlon, probably in copper-aluminium (or bronze-aluminium), weighing 12.08g with a diameter of 31.8mm and a thickness of 2.2mm. We haven't found any equivalent to this module in the recent auction archives. This blank seems to be virtually unknown to date, especially as it's missing from the Carles-Jongues collection, the reference for modern French coin patterns, specimens and pre-series. We find similar creations by the engraver Lavrillier (GEM 141.8: 12.2g, 31mm), a blank with a mass and diameter almost identical to this specimen, but with both sides struck; and the same for the engravers Cochet and Vezien, on slightly lighter blanks (GEM 135.4, 11.4g and 139.3, 11.5g). Nonetheless, we have here an uniface, whose engraving on the obverse is almost identical in every way to the prototype of its 2 Franc nickel equivalent (GEM 113.1), with a portrait whose wreath has no cockade, with the band of the Phrygian cap covering the cheek falling on the shoulder, cutting the listel at 6 o'clock and with an inward fold. This crown, made exclusively of oak and olive branches, differs from the author's other engravings: a first set of two blanks with the addition of a cockade and ears of wheat to the wreath of the portrait, facing right, combined with a reverse featuring Dupré's wreath type. Similarly, for the trials dated 1933, we find this portrait to the left (GEM 138.1, 2 and 3), but the wreath, only made of oak and olive branches, is this time adorned with a cockade. As on the engravings for the specimens of the 2 Franc, the cockade only appears on the series dating from 1930 and later, corresponding to the control specimens, pre-series and patterns with different metals. These remarks also apply to the 1 Franc and 50 Centimes patterns, which were first issued in 1931, bearing a Marianne with a cockade. It should be noted that the trials proposed by the engraver for the 100 Franc Gold coin in 1929 use the same type without a cockade, with the same fold on the shoulder, at the end of the cheek cover, but which does not cut the listel. We therefore believe that this design and issue should be considered as dating from 1929, based on the evolution of the engraving of the portrait after 1930, and in particular the introduction of the cockade on the cap., REPVBLIQVE FRANÇAISE