100 Francs CFA Osiris

The BCEAO issues these small-denomination gold pieces primarily for the collector market — the franc CFA's fixed peg to the euro, a arrangement inherited from the colonial-era franc zone and formalized in 1945, means the issuing states have no practical need for gold circulation coinage. Osiris-themed issues sit in a broader trend of African monetary authorities licensing collector series through European minting houses, often with little organic connection to the issuing nation's own history or iconography.