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1000 Francs CFA Still life with wooden shoes and pots
| Issuer | Gabon |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#116 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 2017 Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890 |
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Gabon issues coinage through the Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale, the regional central bank serving the six-member CEMAC zone, which means individual member states have virtually no independent monetary authority over their circulating currency. Collector issues like this one are licensed through private minting intermediaries — typically European firms — and bear little relationship to Gabonese economic or cultural policy. The "1000 Francs CFA" denomination is nominal; no piece of this weight and composition ever circulated.
The wooden shoes in the title suggest a Dutch or Flemish still-life reference, an odd choice for a Central African issuer and almost certainly a subject selected by the contracting mint rather than Gabonese authorities.