1000 Francs CFA Year of the Dog

The Central African CFA franc is issued under the authority of the BEAC, yet commemorative collector pieces like this one are licensed through private minting arrangements — meaning this coin was never intended to circulate in Brazzaville or anywhere else. The Republic of the Congo's name on the obverse is essentially a licensing agreement with a European mint, a practice that became increasingly common across small African sovereign states from the 1990s onward as a revenue stream.

The Lunar series format behind this issue originates in collector demand driven almost entirely by Asian markets. KM#260 places it within a broader run of such issues from this issuer.