10 000 Francs CFA Katana

The katana has no geographic or cultural connection to Central Africa, and that's precisely the point. BEAC's numismatic program — operated largely through European distributors — has for years issued collector silver on themes chosen for their appeal to international buyers rather than any regional relevance. These pieces are legal tender of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community in name, though they are never intended to circulate and are typically sold far outside the issuing states.

KM#406 places this among a long series of BEAC-authorized issues struck almost certainly at a European facility, most likely B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt in Munich, which has handled a substantial portion of BEAC's collector coinage contracts.