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1000 Francs Horus
| Issuer | Bank of Central African States |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 1000 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the coat of arms of the Republic of Chad at center, featuring a shield with chevron pattern supported by a goat to the left and a lion to the right, with a rising sun motif above the shield and a scroll below bearing the national motto. The legend REPUBLIQUE DU TCHAD arcs along the upper rim in bold Latin characters, while UNITE TRAVAIL PROGRES appears on the ribbon scroll beneath the supporters. The denomination 1000 FRANCS CFA is inscribed along the lower rim, flanked by the specifications 2 TROY OZ to the left and .999 FINE SILVER to the right. The date 2016 appears in the lower field below the coat of arms. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Bank of Central African States — the BEAC — issues commemorative coinage on behalf of its six member nations: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. This particular piece was struck under that umbrella authority, though none of the six have any historical or geographic connection to ancient Egypt. It belongs to a wave of commercially driven bullion-adjacent issues that flooded the numismatic market through the 2010s, produced primarily for collector export rather than domestic circulation.
The 2 troy ounce format places it squarely in that category.