100 Francs CFA Otto von Bismarck

Ivory Coast has issued dozens of these miniature gold pieces under the CFA franc designation, typically featuring European historical figures who have no meaningful connection to the country's history. Bismarck unified the German states through three deliberate wars between 1864 and 1871, and presided over the 1884–85 Berlin Conference — the gathering at which European powers formally partitioned Africa, drawing the borders that created French West Africa and, by extension, the territory that became Côte d'Ivoire itself. The irony of his portrait appearing on an Ivorian coin is considerable.