Katalog
| Emittent | Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique Equatoriale et du Cameroun |
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| Jahr | 1965-1972 |
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| Nennwert | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Währung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Dicke | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Form | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Prägetechnik | Milled |
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| Stempelschneider | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Im Umlauf bis | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Aversschrift | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Averslegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Reversbeschreibung | The denomination numeral 10 is prominently displayed in the center of the field, with the legend FRANCS inscribed below it, together forming the face value. The central device is encircled by a decorative wreath composed of representative Cameroonian agricultural crops, including cotton bolls, coffee branches, cocoa pods, and cereal grains, rendered in fine relief and arranged symmetrically to frame the denomination. |
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| Reverslegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rand | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Prägestätte | Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date) |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
The Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique Équatoriale et du Cameroun was itself a transitional institution — it replaced the older Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française et du Cameroun as the member states moved toward post-independence monetary administration, while remaining locked into the CFA franc zone under French Treasury guarantee. This coin circulated across the Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, and Cameroon simultaneously, a monetary union held together less by economic logic than by the franc zone agreements Paris had negotiated at independence.
The aluminum-nickel-bronze alloy was specified to discourage the systematic melting that had plagued earlier issues in the region.