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1000 Francs CFA Tsiolkovsky Sputnik
| Issuer | Benin (1975-date) |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the national coat of arms of Benin, featuring a quartered shield supported by two leopards rampant, with a sailing ship and palm tree motifs in the quarters, surmounted by a star. A scroll below the shield bears the national motto legend. The circular legend REPUBLIQUE DU BENIN arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 1000 FRANCS CFA is inscribed in large raised characters in the lower field beneath the arms. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DU BENIN FRATERNITE JUSTICE TRAVAIL 1000 FRANCS CFA |
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Benin's franc CFA coinage has no practical monetary function at this weight and fineness — these are collector issues produced under licensing arrangements that have nothing to do with the issuing nation's history or economy. This piece commemorates Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the Russian rocket theorist who died in 1935, and Sputnik, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. The pairing is historically coherent: Tsiolkovsky's theoretical work on multistage rockets and liquid propellants directly underpinned the Soviet space program that produced Sputnik.