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1000 Francs CFA Connochaetes Taurinus
| Issuer | Ivory Coast |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (1960-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DE COTE D`IVOIRE 1000 FRANCS CFA (Translation: Republic of Ivory Coast) |
| Reverse description | A polychrome enamel-colored scene depicts two blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) in a savannah landscape: one adult standing prominently in the center-left and a second resting on the ground to the right foreground. The background features a stylized African landscape with green foliage, blue sky, and rolling terrain, all rendered in vivid applied color enamel. The scientific name 'CONNOCHAETES TAURINUS' arcs along the upper periphery in raised lettering, and the date '2006' appears at the bottom of the coin in the lower field. |
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The wildebeest depicted on this issue belongs to a curious category of African wildlife coinage that proliferated in the early 2000s, when several West African CFA franc states — Ivory Coast among them — licensed their minting authority to produce collectible series aimed almost entirely at the European and North American numismatic market. Ivory Coast itself had no domestic wildebeest population; the animal is native to East and Southern Africa. These coins never circulated.