1000 Francs CFA Elephant Mother

Burkina Faso has no independent mint and contracts its commemorative coinage through European private minting houses — in this period predominantly the Bavarian State Mint and several Polish facilities. The elephant mother design belongs to a category of sub-Saharan wildlife issues produced largely for the collector export market, with negligible domestic circulation. KM# 107 places it within a run of similar Burkinabé commemoratives from the mid-2010s that were licensed rather than initiated by the issuing government.