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25 Centimes Kayes

Issuer Chambre de Commerce de Kayes
Year 1920
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Shape Round
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Obverse script Latin
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Reverse description The large denomination numeral 25 with a superscript 'c' occupies the central field in bold raised figures, serving as the dominant design element. The legend CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE arcs along the upper periphery, and KAYES is inscribed along the lower arc, both separated from the central field by a continuous beaded inner border. The entire design is framed by an outer beaded circle running along the rim, giving the reverse a clean, utilitarian appearance characteristic of French colonial emergency coinage.
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Kayes, in what was then French Soudan, sat at the western terminus of the Dakar–Niger railway and functioned as the colony's administrative capital until that role shifted to Bamako in 1908. By 1920, chronic small-change shortages across French West Africa had pushed local Chambers of Commerce to issue their own emergency aluminium tokens — a stopgap the metropolitan administration tolerated but never formally endorsed. Kayes was among the smallest and most remote of the issuing bodies, which kept circulation tight and survival rates low.