50 Pounds OAU, Copper Piedfort

Sudan issued this piedfort alongside the Organisation of African Unity commemorative series in 1978, a year when Khartoum was actively positioning itself as a continental diplomatic hub. Piedforts of this era were almost exclusively produced as presentation or pattern pieces for government officials and mint archives rather than for any collector market — the distinction matters, because surviving examples rarely passed through more than one or two hands before entering institutional collections.