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10 000 Francs CFA Journey to the West on a Starry Night
| Issuer | Bank of Central African States |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | SUN WUKONG TANG SANZANG ZHU BAJIE SHA WUJING JOURNEY TO THE WEST REPUBLIQUE DU TCHAD 2023 10000 FRANCS CFA |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Chinese |
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Journey to the West — the 16th-century Chinese novel attributed to Wu Cheng'en — has generated a staggering volume of commemorative issues from mints across Asia and Europe over the past two decades, most of them chasing the same collector demographic. This Bank of Central African States issue is a curiosity in that lineage: a Central African franc denomination applied to a subject with zero geographic or cultural connection to the issuing authority, a practice BEAC has used repeatedly to capture the novelty coin market through licensed themes.
The composition — a silver-plated copper core — places this firmly in the bullion-adjacent novelty category rather than precious metal coinage proper.