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200 Francs Independence, FAO
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Rwanda |
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| Year | 1972 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Grégoire Kayibanda, founder and organiser of the Hutu Emancipation Movement (Parmehutu) and first President of Rwanda, positioned to the left, depicted in the act of receiving the instruments of independence. The Rwandan national flag is shown in the background. A circular Latin legend surrounding the design commemorates the tenth anniversary of independence, with the dates 1·7·62 and 1·7·72 flanking the central motif. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Rwanda's 1972 200 Francs was struck as part of the FAO coinage program, a United Nations initiative that prompted dozens of nations to issue commemorative pieces carrying agricultural and food-security messaging during the early 1970s. Rwanda had gained independence from Belgian administration in 1962 following a violent Hutu revolution that ended the Tutsi monarchy — the "Independence" designation on this coin refers to that decade-earlier rupture, not a concurrent political event.
Mintage was low and distribution narrow, as was typical of FAO-program issues destined more for international collectors than domestic circulation.