1000 Francs Machu Picchu

Chad has no geographic or historical connection to Machu Picchu. This coin belongs to a category of issues produced in the 1990s and early 2000s where landlocked African nations with minimal mint infrastructure licensed their sovereign authority to European distributors — primarily in Germany and Austria — who designed, struck, and marketed the coins directly to collectors. The issuing "country" was largely nominal.

Schön catalogues a substantial run of these Chadian silver issues from the late 1990s, most produced at European mints on contract.