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1 Franc
| Issuer | French Equatorial Africa |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 1 Franc |
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| Obverse lettering | RF AFRIQUE EQUATORIALE FRANCAISE LIBRE C.L.S. |
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| Mintage | 1943 SA - - 6,000,000 |
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French Equatorial Africa was one of the few territories that broke from Vichy France and rallied to de Gaulle's Free French almost immediately in August 1940. That alignment created an urgent coinage problem: the territory needed currency it could call its own, independent of Vichy-controlled metropolitan supply chains. These bronze issues were struck in Pretoria under arrangement with the South African Mint, an unusual wartime expedient that explains the non-French production context entirely.
The KM#2a designation distinguishes the bronze composition from the earlier brass striking of the same type.