10 000 Francs CFA Gustav Klimt, Lady with a Fan

Chad has no meaningful connection to Gustav Klimt, and that's precisely the point. The country's francs CFA issues — produced almost entirely for the European collector market — use the legal tender framework of the BEAC monetary zone as a licensing mechanism, not a monetary one. This piece will never see N'Djamena. The core is zinc plated in .999 silver, a construction that keeps costs low on a coin weighing nearly a kilogram, where a solid silver equivalent would be prohibitively expensive to produce at this diameter.