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15 000 Francs CFA General Gnassingbe Eyadema, Obverse trial strike
| Issuer | Togo |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1977 - - 10 |
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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, as he himself frequently boasted. By the mid-1970s his government was issuing an extravagant series of high-denomination commemorative and collector pieces through the Monnaie de Paris, many featuring his own likeness, partly as instruments of political image-building abroad and partly to generate hard currency through numismatic sales to foreign collectors.
Trial strikes (essais de frappe) in copper were produced as off-metal tests prior to final approval of the production dies. KM#TS10 never progressed to a circulating or standard collector issue at this denomination.