Central hole divides letter R and F (Republique Française) below Phrygian cap with a decorated circle inside an oak wreath of 2 branches. Engraver's name below.

The Phrygian cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including Phrygia, Dacia, and the Balkans. In early modern Europe it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty through a confusion with the pileus, the felt cap of manumitted (emancipated) slaves of ancient Rome. Accordingly, the Phrygian cap sometimes is called a liberty cap.

Denomination (MES underlined) divided by an olive plant and center hole, date below. The national motto of France (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity) above.

Mintmark of the Paris Mint (Cornucopia) on the left and a privy mark of Chief Engraver (torch, Henri Auguste Patey, 1896-1930) on the right middle.