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1000 Francs CFA Still life with bottles and a cowrie shell
| Issuer | Gabon |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (Bank of Central African States, 1973-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The CFA franc zone ties Gabon and twelve other African states to a fixed parity with the euro, a arrangement rooted in France's post-independence monetary agreements of 1972 that effectively kept the Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale as guarantor. Collector issues like this one are struck not for circulation but for the numismatic export market, financed entirely outside the normal monetary supply.
The cowrie shell carried its own monetary history long before the CFA existed — used as currency across Central and West Africa for centuries, and still exchanged in ritual and ceremonial transactions in parts of Gabon today.