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5000 Francs CFA General Gnassingbe Eyadema, Reverse Trial Strike
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (BCEAO) |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 5000 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse description | Plain copper field bearing the single incuse word PRUEBA (Spanish for 'trial') struck horizontally across the centre of the disc. The field is otherwise entirely devoid of design elements, devices, or decorative motifs, serving solely as a trial die identification surface. The flat, unadorned character of this face confirms its status as the obverse of a reverse trial strike, where only the reverse die was employed. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Trial strikes for BCEAO issues were produced in multiple metals — copper, aluminum, and silver among them — as part of the formal approval process before a design entered circulation. This copper reverse trial is the working documentation of that process, struck to evaluate die quality and relief before the final alloy was committed. Eyadéma, who seized power in Togo in 1967 after assassinating President Sylvanus Olympio's successor Nicolas Grunitzky in a bloodless coup, was one of the first African heads of state to have his portrait placed on a regional BCEAO coin — a notable exception to the institution's usual practice of avoiding political portraiture on circulating currency.