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1000 Francs Giant panda
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Composition | Ruthenium (.999) plated silver (.999) (with selective gilding) |
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| Obverse lettering | • ELIZABETH II • 1000 FRANCS CFA • IRB REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Cameroon's wildly prolific modern commemorative program — managed not from Yaoundé but largely through European bullion dealers and licensing agents — has produced hundreds of issues since the 1990s with little formal oversight from the Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale. This piece is firmly part of that cottage industry. The giant panda subject has no geographic or political connection to Cameroon whatsoever; the denomination exists on paper only.
Ruthenium plating on silver is vanishingly rare in world coinage — the metal, a platinum-group element, is used here purely for its dark, near-black surface contrast against the gilded zones.