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100 Francs Pope John Paul II
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Shape | Other (Cross) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | JEAN PAUL II 2011 RECONCILIATION DES RELIGIONES MEA CULPA 12. MARS 2000 (Translation: Reconciliation of religions. My mistake. March 12, 2000.) |
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Cameroon's 100 Francs issues of this type belong to a well-documented category of coins struck not for domestic circulation but for the international collector market, produced under license through European minting intermediaries. The CFA franc zone countries — Cameroon among them — have issued dozens of such pieces since the 1990s, with ecclesiastical subjects proving reliably commercial.
John Paul II died in 2005, making this a posthumous commemorative issued six years after his death, the same year his beatification was celebrated in Rome.