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100 Francs CFA Blue Whale
| Issuer | Central African Republic |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Weight | 25 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | WWF BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS 2015 (Translation: WWF Blue Whale 2015) |
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The Central African Republic has no coastline and no whales. Like many landlocked nations, it has periodically authorized novelty issues through third-party minting arrangements — coins designed entirely for the collector market, with no relationship to the issuing country's history, economy, or fauna. This piece is one of those.
KM#19 was struck under licensing arrangements common to small Francophone African states whose minting authority is effectively administered externally.