1000 Francs CFA FIFA World Cup 2006

The FIFA licensing arrangement that produced this issue was part of a broader wave of World Cup commemoratives struck for African nations with no functional connection to the tournament — Germany 2006 saw dozens of such pieces issued by countries whose national teams didn't qualify and whose populations would rarely encounter the coins in circulation. Ivory Coast itself failed to advance past the group stage in 2006, finishing behind Switzerland and Ukraine.

KM#36 and #37 denote two distinct types within the issue, likely differentiated by reverse design rather than specification.