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1 Franc Trial
| Issuer | Banque Centrale du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi |
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| Year | 1957 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A tall oil palm tree with detailed fronds occupies the center of the field, with the denomination numeral 1 and the letter F flanking the trunk at its base. The bilingual legend BANQUE CENTRALE curves along the upper periphery and CENTRALE BANK arcs along the lower periphery, with small five-pointed stars serving as separators between the two inscriptions. |
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Trial strikes for the Banque Centrale du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi were produced in the mid-1950s as Belgium began consolidating the monetary administration of its central African territories under a single institution. The 1957 aluminium essai for the 1-franc denomination was part of that transitional testing process — the bank itself had only been established in 1952, replacing the dual-issuing arrangement that had existed since the 1920s.
KM#E5 is catalogued as an essai, meaning it was struck for approval rather than circulation. Aluminium was the intended production metal, so this trial represents a composition test rather than an experimental alternative.