BEAC's trimetallic commemorative program of the early 2010s produced coins for circulation across six member states — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon — a monetary union whose franc remains pegged to the euro via a French Treasury guarantee unchanged in structure since the CFA franc's creation in 1945. Mother Teresa, an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun with no particular connection to central Africa, appears here as part of a broader series of international humanitarian figures. The choice reflects the issuer's strategy of targeting the collector market rather than any regional historical relevance.
BEAC's trimetallic commemorative program of the early 2010s produced coins for circulation across six member states — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon — a monetary union whose franc remains pegged to the euro via a French Treasury guarantee unchanged in structure since the CFA franc's creation in 1945. Mother Teresa, an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun with no particular connection to central Africa, appears here as part of a broader series of international humanitarian figures. The choice reflects the issuer's strategy of targeting the collector market rather than any regional historical relevance.