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50 Centimes with 'LIBRE'
| Issuer | French Cameroon (1916-1960) |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse lettering | HONNEUR LIBERTÉ · ÉGALITÉ PATRIE · FRATERNITÉ · 50 CMES C.L.S. 1943 (Translation: Honor Liberty Equality Country Fraternity) |
| Edge | Plain |
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The 'LIBRE' inscription marks this coin as a product of the Free French administration — Cameroon, a League of Nations mandate under French control, aligned with de Gaulle's government-in-exile almost immediately after the Fall of France in 1940. Felix Éboué, the Black governor of Chad whose support was pivotal in rallying French Equatorial Africa to the Free French cause, helped secure the broader regional commitment that made coinage under this authority possible.
Bronze was a pragmatic wartime choice; nickel and other strategic metals were redirected to the war effort. The 1943 date places this squarely in the Pretoria Mint's production run for Free French African territories.