Coins issued last year by five nations in Central Africa, each bearing an elephant on one side, were tailored to fit local preferences.

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Nearly two years later it was ripped down by the new Yugoslav authorities though strangely a large central medallion from the monument, bearing the image of Franz Ferdinand and his wife, survives to this day in the basement of another Sarajevo gallery.

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