fwo_721612 - CONGO - PROVINCE OF KATANGA 5 Francs 1961
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Price : 935.00 €
Type : 5 Francs
Date: 1961
Quantity minted : 20000
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,32 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très légères traces de nettoyage
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : KATANGA EN CREUX ET DEUX CROIX KATANGAISES.
Obverse description : Régime de bananes.
Reverse
Reverse legend : BANQUE/ NATIONALE/ 5 FR/ 1961.
Reverse description : Croix katangaise (Baluba).
Commentary
En 1961, deux semaines après l’indépendance de l’ancien Congo belge, la province du Katanga fit sécession. Les derniers sécessionnistes se rendirent en janvier 1963.
Deux monnaies de 1 et de 5 francs furent fabriquées pour la province du Katanga en 1961. Elles sont normalement en bronze. Pour la pièce de 5 francs, il existe aussi cette pièce en or qui ne fut pas mise en circulation.
In 1961, two weeks after the independence of the former Belgian Congo, the province of Katanga seceded. The last secessionists surrendered in January 1963. Two coins of 1 and 5 francs were minted for the province of Katanga in 1961. They are normally made of bronze. For the 5 franc coin, there is also this gold coin that was not put into circulation.
Deux monnaies de 1 et de 5 francs furent fabriquées pour la province du Katanga en 1961. Elles sont normalement en bronze. Pour la pièce de 5 francs, il existe aussi cette pièce en or qui ne fut pas mise en circulation.
In 1961, two weeks after the independence of the former Belgian Congo, the province of Katanga seceded. The last secessionists surrendered in January 1963. Two coins of 1 and 5 francs were minted for the province of Katanga in 1961. They are normally made of bronze. For the 5 franc coin, there is also this gold coin that was not put into circulation.
Historical background
CONGO - PROVINCE OF KATANGA
(1961)
Congo's independence was proclaimed on July 1, 1960. Eleven days later, Katanga seceded. Moïse Tschombé was appointed head of state on August 8, 1960. Katanga was an extremely rich region thanks to copper, tin, zinc, manganese, uranium and platinum mines, and negotiations between the central government of Léopoldville (Kinshasa) and those of Elisabethville (Lubumbashi), failed. Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961) requested the intervention of the UN, which sent troops to repress the Katangese insurrection, but did not want to take part in the conflict which opposed Prime Minister Lumumba to President Kasavubu. Lumumba was dismissed in September 1960, arrested on December 1 in Stanleyville and executed in January 1961 in Katanga. The UN intervened on September 13, 1961. Katanga's resistance was broken in December 1962. Katanga, renamed Shaba in 1972, again attempted secession out of the Congolese quagmire.
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