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1000 Francs CFA Piliocolobus kirkii
| Issuer | Benin (1975-date) |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a vivid full-colour enamel depiction of a Zanzibar red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus kirkii) clinging to and swinging from dark reddish-brown branches amid green foliage, rendered in a stylised polychrome technique. The monkey is shown with its characteristic white-fringed face, dark facial mask, and reddish-orange tail, set against a pale golden field. The scientific name COLOBUS PENNANTII arcs along the left periphery in the field, while KIRKII appears in the lower exergue and the issue year 2009 is inscribed centrally at the bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | COLOBUS PENNANTII KIRKII 2009 |
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Piliocolobus kirkii — Kirk's red colobus — is endemic to Zanzibar and listed as Endangered, its population confined almost entirely to the Jozani forest. Benin has no geographic or political connection to this species whatsoever. The coin exists because of a well-documented cottage industry: Central African CFA member states, and particularly Benin, have since the early 2000s issued large volumes of collector coinage featuring foreign wildlife, ancient civilizations, and pop culture figures — none of it intended for circulation, all of it sold wholesale to European distributors.