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100 Francs First Anniversary Of Republic
| Issuer | Burundi |
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| Year | 1967 |
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| Composition | Gold (.900) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DU BURUNDI PRESIDENT MICHEL MICOMBERO UNITE - TRAVAIL - PROGRES |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Burundi's 1967 commemorative was issued just one year after the monarchy was abolished in a coup led by Captain Michel Micombero, who overthrew Mwami Ntare V in November 1966 while the king was attending a football match in Kinshasa. Micombero declared a republic and had himself named president. The anniversary issue followed almost immediately as a legitimizing gesture from an internationally unrecognized regime that had seized power by opportunism rather than revolution.
KM#15 was struck in a limited quantity aimed squarely at the collector export market — Burundi had negligible domestic gold coin circulation and the series was frankly a foreign exchange vehicle.