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25 Francs President Gregoire Kayibanda
| Issuer | Rwanda |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Composition | Gold (.900) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | PRESIDENT GREGOIRE KAYIBANDA · · 1961 · · |
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Rwanda's first gold coinage was issued just four years after independence, commissioned by Kayibanda's government through the Belgian firm Compagnie Belge d'Assurance Crédit as part of a broader effort to establish monetary credibility for the newly sovereign franc. Kayibanda himself would be deposed — and later starved to death under house arrest — in the 1973 military coup led by Juvénal Habyarimana.
Mintage was extremely low, struck for prestige and diplomatic gift purposes rather than circulation.