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100 Francs CFA Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
| Issuer | Ivory Coast |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 100 Francs CFA |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus — built in modern-day Bodrum, Turkey, around 350 BC for the Carian satrap Maussollos — gave the English language the word "mausoleum" and stood for roughly seventeen centuries before earthquakes reduced it to rubble. The Ivory Coast has no historical connection to the site whatsoever; this is a bullion-adjacent novelty issue produced under the kind of licensing arrangement common among West African CFA franc issuers, where the nominal sovereign lends its authority to coins designed and marketed entirely for foreign collectors.
At 0.5 grams of .999 gold, the piece contains almost no metal value relative to handling costs — a format that exists purely as a collectible vehicle.