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1000 Francs Year of the Goat
| Issuer | National Bank of Rwanda |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Currency | Franc (1964-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a deeply sculpted cameo-style insert in blue and white, depicting a group of goats in a naturalistic mountain landscape with rocks and foliage rendered in high relief against a dark blue background. A circular medallion in the upper left of the insert bears the Chinese character 羊 (goat). The legend YEAR OF THE GOAT arcs along the upper border of the coin. The surrounding silver border is engraved with the years of the Goat in the Chinese zodiac cycle — 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, and 2015 — interspersed with decorative Chinese auspicious symbols including the characters 富 (wealth) and 福 (fortune) within ornamental frames. |
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| Reverse script | Chinese, Latin |
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Rwanda's Year of the Goat series was struck for the international bullion and collector market — the country itself uses the Rwandan franc but has no domestic tradition of lunar coinage. The National Bank effectively licensed its sovereign authority to a European mint operator, a common arrangement among smaller nations producing numismatic silver for export revenue rather than circulation.
At 93.30 grams of .999 silver, the striking was almost certainly contracted to the B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt facility in Munich, which handled much of this series production.