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1000 Francs CFA Chinese Year of the Monkey
| Issuer | Togo |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a portrait of a woman wearing an elaborate traditional Taiwanese indigenous headdress, facing slightly left, rendered in high relief. A Chinese inscription in a rectangular cartouche below the portrait reads 台灣原住民 (Taiwan Indigenous Peoples). To the right, a procession of figures in traditional dress carrying ceremonial staffs is depicted in lower relief. The issuer legend REPUBLIQUE TOGOLAISE curves along the upper rim, flanked by floral rosette ornaments, while the denomination 1000 FRANCS appears in bold letters along the lower rim. The border is decorated with a repeated dotted and diamond motif. |
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| Reverse script | Latin, Chinese |
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Togo's participation in the Chinese lunar series was part of a broader wave of African CFA-zone nations licensing their issuing authority to European coin marketing firms — primarily Helvetic Mint and related operators — during the early 2000s. The coins were never intended for Togolese circulation and were produced entirely for the collector export market. Togo itself had no independent monetary policy to speak of, operating under the West African CFA franc framework controlled by the BCEAO in Dakar.
KM#38 is one of several Togolese lunar issues from this period struck to the same 30.73g/.999 specification used across competing series from Benin, Guinea, and Congo.