1 Franc

The Comoro Islands remained a French territory until 1975, and this issue — struck at the Paris Mint — predates an independence movement that would eventually include a unilateral declaration, a mercenary-backed counter-coup, and decades of political instability. In 1964, the archipelago was still administered as a French overseas territory, and its coinage was managed entirely through Paris, with the Institut d'Émission des Comores established only the previous year to begin separating Comorian monetary affairs from those of Madagascar.