1000 Francs

The BEAC 1000 Franc coin was introduced as part of a broader push toward bimetallic circulation coinage in the six-member Central African Economic and Monetary Community — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Coordinating a single circulating coinage across that many sovereign states, several of which have experienced coups or active armed conflict within the past decade, is no small administrative feat. The CFA franc zone itself is a direct inheritance of the French colonial monetary system formalized in 1945.