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| Issuer | Burkina Faso |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (1960-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DU BURKINA FASO BURKINA FASO Unité Progrès Justice 10 000 FRANCS CFA |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Burkina Faso has issued a series of large-format silver kilogram pieces under its BCEAO-affiliated coinage authority, primarily marketed to European collectors through intermediary distributors rather than circulated domestically. The "Jesus" issue belongs to a wave of religious-themed novelty bullion that flooded the collector market in the 2010s, produced under licensing arrangements that gave small African states nominal issuing authority while actual production and distribution remained entirely in private European hands — a model that attracted considerable scrutiny from numismatic authenticating bodies.