2 Francs Union française Essai

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.