1000 Francs CFA Mayflower

The BCEAO issues collector silver under the West African CFA franc system — a currency union whose peg to the French franc, and later the euro, has been maintained without devaluation since 1948. These commemorative strikes are produced entirely for the export collector market; they do not circulate in member states and are typically struck by European minting contractors on behalf of the issuing authority.

The Mayflower's 1620 crossing has generated commemorative coinage across dozens of issuing authorities with no geographic connection to the voyage, a practice that accelerated sharply in the 2000s as minor issuing bodies discovered the collector premium attached to Anglo-American historical subjects.