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25 Francs Togo; Essai

Features

Location French West Africa
Issuing institution Issuing Institute of French West Africa and Togo (Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Occidentale Française et du Togo)
Period French Union (1946-1958)
Type Patterns
Year 1957
Value 25 Francs
Currency CFA franc (1944-1958)
Composition Aluminium bronze (91% Copper, 9% Aluminium)
Weight 8 g
Diameter 27 mm
Thickness 2 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
576272
References KM# E7
Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).

Obverse

“Taku” a sawfish, a symbol of prosperity divides the value.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
INSTITUT D'EMISSION
25 FRANCS
ESSAI
AFRIQUE OCCIDENTALE FRANCAISE · TOGO

Translation: Emission Institute. Pattern. French West Africa. Togo

Engraver: Lucien Georges Bazor

Reverse

Head of a Slender-Horned Gazelle or Rhim gazelle (Gazella leptoceros). Maize or Corn Plants.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
G.B.L. BAZOR
1957

Engraver: Lucien Georges Bazor

Edge

Plain

Mint

Mintmark of Monnaie de Paris Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date)

Mark

Wing Lucien Bazor, General coin engraver, Monnaie de Paris (1931-1958)

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
1957  Wing 2 300

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