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1000 Francs CFA Astrolabe
| Issuer | Ivory Coast |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Côte d'Ivoire occupies the central field, depicting an elephant head in profile at the centre of a shield surmounted by a rising sun with radiating rays, flanked on either side by a palm tree. A scroll beneath the shield bears the legend REPUBLIQUE DE COTE D'IVOIRE. The country name arcs along the upper periphery in bold Latin letters, while the denomination 1000 FRANCS CFA is inscribed in large characters along the lower field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Ivory Coast issued a series of themed silver pieces in the mid-2000s under authorization from the Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, though the coins were produced entirely for the collector market with no meaningful circulation in the issuing country. The astrolabe series belongs to a broader wave of CFA-denominated commemoratives struck by European mints — almost certainly Paris or a contracted private facility — targeting European and Asian numismatic retail channels rather than any domestic audience.
The astrolabe itself had its Islamic Golden Age refinement to thank for its later adoption by Iberian navigators, a detail that gives this particular subject some historical irony given West Africa's own role in that navigational era.