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1000 Francs CFA Yorkshire Terrier
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MY TRUEST FRIEND YORKSHIRE TERRIER |
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Cameroon's relationship with the CFA franc dates to 1945, but the country has long licensed its monetary authority to private mints producing collector-oriented pieces with no genuine circulation intent. This Yorkshire Terrier issue is one such item — struck under a licensing arrangement rather than any directive from the Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale, which neither orders nor distributes these pieces.
The practice of sovereign nations selling minting licenses to bullion and novelty producers accelerated sharply after the 1990s, with small or cash-strapped states discovering that face-value licensing fees cost nothing and generated passive revenue.