25 Centimes Rufisque

Rufisque, once the dominant commercial port of French Senegal and briefly more economically significant than Dakar, issued this token through its Chamber of Commerce during the post-WWI metal shortage that drove dozens of French colonial and metropolitan chambers to produce aluminum emergency coinage. The town's commercial importance had already begun its long decline by 1920, overtaken by Dakar's expanding infrastructure — making this issue a minor artifact of a city already losing its regional grip.