Catalog
1 Franc Essai
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique Equatoriale et du Cameroun |
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| Year | 1969 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Three giant elands (Derby elands) depicted in left-facing profile, rendered in fine relief against a plain field with stylised savanna grasses below. The engravers' signatures G.B. and L.BAZOR appear vertically along the right inner border. The upper legend arcs in two lines reading ETATS DE L'AFRIQUE EQUATORIALE / BANQUE CENTRALE, while CAMEROUN curves along the lower periphery with the date 1969 positioned in the exergual area beneath the animals. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique Equatoriale et du Cameroun was itself a transitional institution, operating between the dissolution of French Equatorial Africa's colonial monetary framework and the eventual formation of the BEAC in 1972. Essai pieces from this issuer were produced in Paris at the Monnaie de Paris as presentation and approval strikes, never intended for general circulation. Surviving examples almost always appear in mint state for exactly that reason.
KM#E7 is among the scarcer essais from this short-lived authority, which issued coins for only a few years before the reorganized central bank superseded it.