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500 Francs Eurafrique Program
| Issuer | Senegal |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A facing bust portrait of Léopold Sédar Senghor, first President of Senegal, occupies the central field, depicted wearing eyeglasses, a jacket, and a bow tie, rendered in moderate relief with fine detail. The legend LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR arcs along the upper periphery from left to right. The word EURAFRIQUE, enclosed within raised quotation marks, appears in the right field beside the portrait. The date 1975 is inscribed along the lower periphery in bold numerals. |
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The Eurafrique program was a short-lived Franco-African development initiative promoted in the early 1970s as a framework for economic cooperation between France and its former African colonies. Senegal issued this piece — along with several other West African states — as part of a coordinated commemorative series tied to that program. The timing was deliberate: President Senghor was among the initiative's most vocal champions, and the coins functioned as much as diplomatic objects as numismatic ones.
Struck to .917 fineness at the Paris Mint, mintages across this Eurafrique series were extremely low, with most individual country issues numbering in the hundreds.