1000 Francs CFA Peace dove

At 0.031 grams, this is fractional gold in the most literal sense — a format that has proliferated across the CFA franc zone in recent years as issuers chase collector markets rather than circulating monetary needs. Gabon's use of the CFA franc is itself a post-independence arrangement: the country retained the currency after 1960 under the Coopération financière en Afrique centrale framework, with the franc anchored first to the French franc and later to the euro at a fixed rate that Paris has guaranteed since.