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1000 Francs Rothschild Prayerbook

Emittent Bank of Central African States (BEAC)
Jahr 2018
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Nennwert 1000 Francs CFA
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Reversbeschreibung The reverse presents a vivid full-color reproduction of two facing pages of the Rothschild Prayerbook, a celebrated Flemish illuminated manuscript of the early sixteenth century, depicted as an open book. The left page features a richly colored miniature illustrating a liturgical Mass celebrated in a Gothic cathedral interior, with clergy in elaborate vestments gathered about the altar beneath a vaulted nave; the page is bordered by intricate acanthus scrollwork and polychrome flowers on a gilt ground. The right page reproduces a text page in Latin script headed 'Incipit missa de Sancto Spiritu,' with an elaborate illuminated initial and marginalia featuring floral sprays, a bee, and a small scene of a rider on a donkey, all on a burnished gold background. The entire composition faithfully captures the opulence and fine craftsmanship of the original manuscript's illumination. The rectangular coin edge frames both pages, reinforcing the trompe-l'oeil effect of a real open book.
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Auflage 2018 mw - Proof - 999
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The "Rothschild Prayerbook" takes its name from a celebrated illuminated manuscript produced in Flanders around 1505–1510, commissioned for wealthy Flemish patrons and later acquired by the Rothschild banking family in the nineteenth century. It eventually passed through auction at Christie's London in 1999, where it sold for £8.5 million — then a record for any manuscript at auction. The BEAC's decision to reference it on a commemorative issue is purely commercial: the Central African franc zone has no historical or cultural connection to the manuscript whatsoever.

These rectangular-format silver pieces were struck for the collector market, not circulation, under licensing arrangements common to BEAC's modern numismatic program.

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