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1000 Francs CFA Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
| Issuer | Benin (1975-date) |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 1000 Francs CFA |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a colorized central scene depicting the LZ 129 Hindenburg airship in flight above the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, set against a blue sky with clouds and a purple horizon, rendered in polychrome enamel. To the lower right, a circular inset portrait of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin in military uniform appears in color. The legend FERDINAND GRAF VON ZEPPELIN arcs along the upper rim, with the airship designation LZ 129 inscribed in the lower central field and the commemorative dates 1917-1997 along the bottom rim. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Benin's commemorative program in the 1990s was largely driven by a Luxemburg-based marketing operation that licensed numismatic themes to West African CFA nations with little connection to the subjects depicted. Zeppelin appears here not because of any historical link to Dahomey or Benin, but because dirigible imagery sold reliably to European collector markets. The coins were legal tender in name only — none entered circulation.
KM#50 is one of several near-identical Zeppelin issues distributed across multiple CFA issuers in the same period, differing chiefly in the named authority.