1000 Francs CFA Elephant of Benin

Benin has no independent mint and issues no coins through a conventional national authority — these pieces are produced under licensing arrangements, typically through European private mints, for the collector market rather than circulation. The "Benin" issuer designation here is largely nominal; the BCEAO, which governs the actual CFA franc zone currency used in Benin, has no involvement in their production.

The elephant series from this program has been issued across multiple African nominal issuers with near-identical specifications, a pattern common to the modern bullion-adjacent numismatic licensing trade centered in central Europe.