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1000 Francs CFA Van Gogh Bottle Cap
| Issuer | Chad |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Weight | 6 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2022 - - 5,000 |
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Chad joined a small cluster of African franc zone nations — including Congo, Gabon, and Niger — that have issued legal tender collector coins through the Pressburg Mint under licensing arrangements that have little to do with the issuing state's own monetary policy. The "bottle cap" shape is a genuine struck format, not a capsule holder, produced using a proprietary die-forming technique developed in Slovakia around 2015.
Van Gogh died stateless and nearly unknown in 1890; his work entered the commercial mainstream only decades later through his brother Theo's widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, who methodically promoted the estate.