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25 Francs Pattern
| Issuer | Institut d'Emission de l'Afrique Equatoriale Française et du Cameroun |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Value | 25 Francs (25 FCFA) |
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| Obverse description | Three giant elands (Taurotragus derbianus) depicted in left-facing profile, rendered with naturalistic detail in high relief, their sweeping spiral horns dominating the upper field. The circular legend AFRIQUE EQUATORIALE FRANCAISE runs along the upper periphery, with INSTITUT D'EMISSION continuing below it in a secondary arc. The engraver's signature G.B.L. BAZOR appears at the right field, flanked by the date 1958 and the territorial inscription CAMEROUN at the lower portion of the coin. |
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| Obverse lettering | AFRIQUE EQUATORIALE FRANÇAISE INSTITUT D'EMISSION 1958 CAMEROUN G. B. L. BAZOR (Translation: French Equatorial Africa Issuing Institute. Cameroon.) |
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The Institut d'Emission de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française et du Cameroun was a short-lived monetary authority, established in 1955 to manage currency across French Equatorial Africa and Cameroun in the twilight of French colonial administration. By 1958 — the year de Gaulle returned to power and the Fifth Republic was drafted — it was already clear that independence movements across the region would make a unified colonial coinage politically untenable. This piece was never adopted for circulation.
Guinea's abrupt rejection of the French Community in September 1958 accelerated the dissolution of these shared monetary structures entirely.