Surprise! Other money?

It took until my last week here for me to discover that there were other coins I had never seen --

25 FCFA and 10 FCFA. I asked Amadou how I had managed to get so far and not know this: he said these were introduced sometime around the 1994 devaluation, because things got so expensive that they needed a few smaller denomination coins (for example, a box of matches is 25 FCFA). There must not be that many in circulation though, because they don't seem particularly common either.

It's a bit hard to tell here, but they're allover gold (kind of looks fake).

While I'm back on the topic of money, here are the 100 and 500 FCFA pieces I didn't have around to post last time.