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1000 Francs CFA Panther
| Issuer | Republic of Benin |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a large, richly colored close-up portrait of a leopard (Panthera pardus) occupying the majority of the field, rendered in applied polychrome enamel with vivid orange and brown tones across the feline's spotted coat, contrasting against a green foliate background suggesting natural habitat. The leopard's face is depicted frontally and slightly tilted, with detailed engraving highlighting the whiskers, open mouth with pink tongue, and piercing eyes. The upper portion of the field features a dark arc bearing the legend FÉLIDÉS in bold raised letters, with the Linnaean binomial Panthera pardus and the date 1996 inscribed beneath in smaller characters. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Benin's 1990s silver issues were produced under licensing arrangements common to small Francophone African states with no meaningful domestic minting infrastructure — the physical coins were struck in Europe, typically Belgium or Germany, and sold almost entirely into the collector market rather than circulating in any practical sense. The CFA franc itself was pegged to the French franc at a fixed rate maintained by the French Treasury, meaning Benin had no independent monetary policy to speak of and these nominally domestic issues carried the CFA denomination largely as a legal formality.
Mintage figures for this series are poorly documented in the primary literature, which accounts for the variance between KM and Schön catalog references.