fco_928261 - COMOROS Essai de 20 Francs 1964 Paris
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Type : Essai de 20 Francs
Date: 1964
Mint name / Town : Paris
Quantity minted : 1700
Metal : bronze-aluminium and nickel
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,03 g.
Edge : lisse
Obverse
Obverse legend : REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE // ESSAI // 1964.
Obverse description : Marianne au casque ailé à gauche et navires.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ARCHIPEL DES COMORES ET 20 / FRANCS.
Reverse description : au centre d’une composition formée de palmiers, de fruits, de coquillage et d’un poisson.
Historical background
COMOROS
The Comoros archipelago forms a group of islands located southeast of Africa, east of Tanzania and northwest of Madagascar. These islands are shared between an independent country, the Union of the Comoros, and Mayotte, a French overseas collectivity. In 1946, the islands are no longer administratively attached to Madagascar and form for the first time in their history a united and recognized administrative entity (TOM). After the independence of African countries in the 1960s, a number of intellectuals began to call for independence. The country obtained it on July 6, 1975 but claimed the sovereignty of Mayotte, i.e. the entire Comoros archipelago..
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