French Equatorial Africa 1943 25 centimes

Heritage sale 3042, lot 29697

This specimen was lot 29697 in Heritage sale 3042 (Long Beach, September 2015), where it sold for $2,115. The catalog description^[1] noted, "French Colony aluminum-bronze 25 Centimes 1943 MS65 NGC. A rare issue that was never released, with virtually all examples presumed to have been melted. An exquisite example of the type and missing from many advanced French Colonial collections." This type is accompanied by similar five and ten centimes, also rare.

Recorded mintage: est. 4,160,000.

Specification: aluminum bronze.

Catalog reference: KM 5, Lec-7.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Cristiano Bierrenbach, Warren Tucker and David Michaels, Heritage World Coin Auction 3042, featuring the Read and Bob Bennett Collections, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2015.

Link to:

• 1943 5 centimes
• 1943 10 centimes
• 1948 franc
• French Equatorial Africa 1948 2 francs
• Coins and currency dated 1943
• return to French Equatorial Africa