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200 Francs Egypt's President Nasser
| Issuer | Chad |
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| Year | 1970 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | A relief map of the African continent occupies the central field, rendered with a granular texture to suggest terrain. The curved legend REPUBLIQUE DU TCHAD arcs along the upper left periphery, following the coin's rim. The denomination 200 F is inscribed in large numerals to the lower left of the map, within the open field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued in the year of Gamal Abdel Nasser's death, this coin was part of a wave of commemorative issues produced by Francophone African states in the late 1960s and early 1970s — many struck by the Paris Mint on behalf of governments with little domestic minting infrastructure. Chad's connection to Nasser was ideological rather than geographic; his pan-Arab and pan-African rhetoric had made him a figure of considerable symbolic weight across the continent, and his death in September 1970 prompted swift commemorative responses from several nations.