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1 Franc
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Rwanda |
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| Year | 1974-1985 |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the coat of arms of Rwanda, comprising a distinctive shield with geometric horizontal banding, flanked by two crossed torches surmounted by a dove in flight at the apex. The shield bears the national motto 'LIBERTE · COOPERATION · PROGRES' inscribed on a ribbon at its base, with the legend 'REPUBLIQUE RWANDAISE' displayed on a scroll across the upper portion of the shield. The numeral '1' appears prominently above the arms in the upper central field, with the denomination legend 'UN · FRANC' arcing along the upper periphery of the coin. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Rwanda's post-independence coinage was struck under contract at the Belgian Royal Mint in Brussels — a logistical and political inheritance from the colonial period that persisted well into the 1980s. The aluminium-magnesium alloy chosen for this denomination was strictly practical: low production cost for a country whose monetary system was still consolidating after the 1962 independence and the violent Hutu-Tutsi power transition that followed it.
The eleven-year production window with a shifting alloy ratio suggests at least one mid-run reformulation, likely a response to commodity pricing rather than any policy change.