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10 000 Francs CFA General Gnassingbe Eyadema
| Issuer | Togo |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (1958-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1977 - Proof, bell, 23 B - 25 |
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Gnassingbé Eyadéma seized power in Togo in January 1967 — the first successful military coup in sub-Saharan Africa's post-independence history — and spent the following decade constructing an elaborate personality cult around himself. This issue belongs to a series of high-denomination silver pieces produced in the late 1970s largely for the international collector market rather than domestic circulation; Togo's actual monetary economy ran on far smaller CFA denominations.
KM#E11 carries an "E" prefix denoting essai status in the Krause classification — a pattern or trial piece struck in limited numbers outside the regular issue sequence.