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10 Francs Statue of Zeus at Olympia

Issuer Banque de la République du Burundi
Year 2024
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Weight 16.67 g
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Obverse lettering IBANKI YA REPUBLIKA Y' UBURUNDI UBUMWE - IBIKORWA - AMAJAMBERE UNITE · TRAVAIL · PROGRES 16.67 g 10 FRANCS Ag 999 2024
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Mintage 2024 - Prooflike - 250
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Burundi has issued commemorative silver in small, targeted runs since the early 2000s, typically through arrangements with European minting houses — this piece almost certainly struck by B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt or a comparable contractor rather than any domestic facility. The Seven Wonders series to which this belongs is a well-worn commemorative theme globally, but Burundi's franchise agreements have kept these issues to genuinely limited mintages that secondary markets have absorbed quickly.

The original statue at Olympia, attributed to Pheidias and completed around 435 BC, was reportedly dismantled and moved to Constantinople in late antiquity before being destroyed by fire — though ancient sources disagree on the details.

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