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2 Francs Union française Essai
| Issuer | Togo |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing draped bust of Marianne wearing a winged Phrygian cap, her hair rendered in flowing waves with a radiating comb ornament. The legend REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE UNION FRANÇAISE curves around the upper periphery. The engraver's signature BAZOR appears at lower left, with the initials GB at lower right. The word ESSAI and the date 1948 are inscribed in the exergue, separated by a decorative motif. A finely detailed landscape vignette is depicted in the lower field behind the bust. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 1948 Union française coinage program was a sweeping monetary reform that extended a unified franc-denominated currency across French overseas territories in Africa, the Pacific, and the Caribbean. Togo at the time held the peculiar status of a United Nations Trust Territory administered by France — not a colony outright — which complicated how metropolitan monetary policy applied there. Essai pieces from this series were struck at Paris for administrative and archival approval, not circulation.
Very few territory-specific essais from this program survive outside institutional collections.