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20 000 Francs Said Mohamed Cheikh
| Issuer | Comoro Islands |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Composition | Gold (.900) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A facing bust of Saïd Mohamed Cheikh, the prominent Comorian statesman and long-serving president of the Governing Council, dominates the central field. He is portrayed wearing a traditional fez and eyeglasses, with a suit and tie visible at the truncation. The legend 'SAÏD MOHAMED CHEIKH' arcs around the upper periphery, with his birth year '1904' to the lower left and death year '1970' to the lower right of the effigy, flanking the portrait symmetrically. |
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Said Mohamed Cheikh served as president of the Comoro Islands' government council from 1962 until his death in 1970, making this 1976 posthumous issue something of an anomaly — struck six years after the subject died, during the chaotic transitional period following the unilateral declaration of independence in 1975. The Comoros issued several gold pieces in the mid-1970s clearly aimed at collector and investor markets rather than domestic circulation, a common strategy among newly independent small-nation states scrambling for foreign currency revenue.