André Malraux head facing, dates on the right.

Engraver: P. Rodier

Two cats flanking denomination, date above, the titles of André Malraux's works below:

• Novel La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt.
• Novel L'Espoir (Man's Hope) (1938) was influenced by Malraux's Spanish war experiences.
• Shortly after the war, General Charles de Gaulle appointed Malraux as his Minister for Information (1945–1946). Soon after, he completed his first book on art, The Psychology of Art, published in three volumes (1947–1949). The work was subsequently revised and republished in one volume as The Voices of Silence (Les Voix du Silence) (1951)
• During this post-war period, Malraux published a series of semi-autobiographical works, the first entitled Antimémoires (Anti-Memoirs) (1967)

Mint mark: Cornucopia, horn of plenty (Paris Mint - Paris until 1972 or Pessac from 1973)

Privy mark of the Mint's Chief Engraver: Bee - Pierre Rodier (1994-2000)