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1000 Francs CFA Vysotskiy with Wife
| Issuer | Benin (1975-date) |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The central design features a colorized photographic portrait of Vladimir Vysotsky and his wife Marina Vlady facing each other, set within a tilted picture-frame vignette with the Eiffel Tower visible in the background. Flanking the central image are engraved elements including a guitar to the left and scattered musical notes above, evoking Vysotsky's identity as a poet and singer-songwriter. Below the portrait, lines of Cyrillic cursive text render a verse from one of Vysotsky's songs, accompanied by a colored red-and-black treble clef motif in the lower field. The date 2020 appears in the lower right field. The entire composition is executed in a combination of colorization and fine relief engraving. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Vladimir Vysotsky died in July 1980 during the Moscow Olympics, when Soviet authorities — unwilling to interrupt the games with a state funeral — suppressed public announcement of his death. Hundreds of thousands still gathered spontaneously at the Taganka Theatre. His wife, the French actress Marina Vlady, documented their relationship in her 1990 memoir and was with him in his final years despite Soviet bureaucratic obstacles to their marriage that took years to resolve.
Benin's CFA-denominated collector series has served as a vehicle for Russian cultural subjects since the early 2000s, issues produced by European minting houses for the international numismatic market rather than domestic circulation.