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1000 Francs Horus
| Issuer | Bank of Central African States |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (Bank of Central African States, 1973-date) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 2016 - - 50,000 |
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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.