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1000 Francs CFA 2008 Summer Olympic Games
| Issuer | Ivory Coast |
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| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DE COTE D`IVOIRE 1000 FRANCS CFA (Translation: Republic of Ivory Coast) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Ivory Coast has no meaningful connection to the Beijing Olympics, and that is precisely the point. By 2007, a secondary market had developed among a handful of issuing authorities — most without Olympic delegations of any consequence — licensing the Games imagery from the IOC to produce collector coins sold entirely outside their own borders. The Ivorian franc CFA issues of this period were distributed almost exclusively through European and North American dealers.
KM#34 is one of several near-identical releases from West African CFA issuers that year, differing mainly in the nominal issuing authority printed on the coin.