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1000 Francs Hippopotamus

Issuer Bank of Central African States
Year 1999
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Value 1000 Francs CFA
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Reverse lettering HIPPOPOTAMUS
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The Bank of Central African States issues coinage on behalf of six member nations — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon — a currency union that survived the 1994 CFA franc devaluation largely intact despite the 50% adjustment causing sharp economic disruption across the region. This piece was struck five years after that crisis, when the bank was actively producing silver collector issues partly to generate foreign exchange revenue.

The oval planchet, reflected in the 40 x 25 mm dimensions, is the key production detail here. Shaped coins of this type were contracted through specialist European mints in the late 1990s, not struck at any facility within the issuing states themselves.

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