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1000 Francs CFA Mosasauridae
| Issuer | Burkina Faso |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | WORLD OF EVOLUTION 1 OZ AG 0.999 MOSASAURIDAE 2017 |
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Burkina Faso has no fossil record of mosasaurs — these fully marine predators never inhabited what is now landlocked West Africa during the Late Cretaceous. The coin exists purely because the BCEAO-affiliated issuing framework allows member states to license their names to third-party numismatic programs, overwhelmingly produced by the Polish mint Mennica Polska, which has struck dozens of nearly identical prehistoric fauna issues across multiple nominal African issuers since roughly 2014.
KM#129 was never intended for circulation and likely saw no distribution within Burkina Faso itself.