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1000 Francs CFA Roswell UFO Incident 1947-2017 Round coin
| Issuer | Burkina Faso |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a highly stylised depiction inspired by the underside of an unidentified flying object, with a central concentric circular hub surrounded by radiating spokes and triangular notches, evoking a mechanical rotor or propulsion disc. The surrounding field is filled with an array of geometric rectangular and panel-like forms arranged radially, suggesting an aerial or technological craft viewed from below. The curved legend ROSWELL UFO INCIDENT arcs along the upper inner border, and the commemorative dates 1947-2017 appear at the lower centre, marking the 70th anniversary of the famous incident. The entire surface is struck with antique finish, lending depth and contrast to the intricate geometric relief. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Burkina Faso has issued commemorative coinage under licensing arrangements since the 1990s, with designs contracted almost entirely to European private mints targeting the collector novelty market rather than any domestic monetary purpose. This piece belongs to that category entirely — a foreign-market commemorative with no meaningful circulation history and no connection to Burkinabè national affairs.
The Roswell incident of July 1947 involved the recovery of debris near a ranch outside Roswell, New Mexico, initially reported by the Army Air Force as a "flying disc" before being reclassified as a weather balloon within days. That retraction is what drove decades of speculation.