1000 Francs CFA Panthera Pardus

The Ivory Coast has no native leopard population to speak of — Panthera pardus was effectively extirpated from the country through habitat loss and bushmeat hunting well before this coin was struck. The issue belongs to a wave of African wildlife silver produced for the European collector market in the mid-2000s, where the issuing nation's connection to the subject matter was often nominal at best.