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1000 Francs CFA Pallavin meteorite
| Issuer | Gabon |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 1000 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE GABONAISE 2024 UNION TRAVAIL JUSTICE 1000 FRANCS CFA (Translation: Gabonese Republic Unity Work Justice) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1/10 OZ .9999 Au |
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The Pallavin meteorite is a pallasite — a class so visually distinctive and structurally rare that fewer than 100 confirmed pallasites exist in recorded collections worldwide. Pallasites form at the core-mantle boundary of differentiated asteroids, making each specimen a fragment of a planetary body that never finished becoming a planet. Gabon's use of actual meteorite inlay rather than printed simulation places verifiable extraterrestrial material directly into the flan — the rhodium plating isolates the inlay chemically, preventing oxidation contact between the gold substrate and the olivine-iron matrix.