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5000 Francs CFA General Gnassingbe Eyadema, Pattern
| Issuer | Togo |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 5000 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse description | The Togolese coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring a shield charged with the monogram 'RT' and supported by two rampant lions, each holding a spear. Two national flags are displayed crossed above the shield, with scrolled banners inscribed TRAVAIL, LIBERTE, and PATRIE flanking them. The circular legend REPUBLIQUE TOGOLAISE arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 5000 FRANCS CFA is inscribed in large characters along the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE TOGOLAISE TRAVAIL LIBERTE PATRIE RT 5000 FRANCS CFA (Translation: Togolese Republic Labour Freedom Homeland) |
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Eyadéma seized power in Togo's 1967 coup — the first successful military takeover in independent sub-Saharan Africa — and spent the following decade constructing an increasingly elaborate personality cult around himself. This pattern piece from 1977 falls squarely within that campaign, a period when state imagery, official portraiture, and commemorative objects were deployed systematically to cement his authority. As an essai, it never entered circulation; Togo remained a member of the West African CFA franc zone, and Eyadéma lacked the monetary independence to issue his own circulating coinage.
KM#E9 is catalogued as a pattern with extremely limited production, almost certainly struck at the Paris Mint, which maintained Togo's coinage relationship throughout this period.