1000 Francs CFA Leo

Gabon's franc CFA issues from this period were produced under license by foreign private mints — this piece almost certainly struck by Bald's or a comparable European facility rather than any mint on African soil. The "Leo" designation places it within a zodiac-themed bullion and collector series that proliferated across CFA-zone issuers in the early 2010s, with Gabon, Congo, and Cameroon all lending their sovereign authority to identical marketing programs driven entirely by the secondary collector market, not domestic monetary need.