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1000 Francs CFA Chinese Panda
| Issuer | Gabon |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Technique | Proof |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of the Gabonese Republic occupies the central field, depicting a shield supported by two rampant lions, with a ship and black wavy bands on the lower quarter of the shield and three roundels on the upper portion, surmounted by okoumé tree branches. The legend RÉPUBLIQUE GABONAISE curves along the upper periphery in Latin characters, while the denomination 1000 FRANCS CFA is inscribed along the lower periphery. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Gabon's Panda issues are part of a broader wave of Central African CFA-denomination coins produced for the collector market, most bearing no meaningful relationship to the issuing nation beyond its legal authority to contract with private minting operations. The actual striking was almost certainly handled by a European or Chinese contract mint — the Gabonese treasury neither designed nor distributed these pieces domestically.
KM#83 places this squarely in a series that began proliferating after 2010, when demand from Chinese collectors for panda-themed issues from minor sovereign issuers spiked sharply.