1000 Francs SMS Hohenzollern

The SMS Hohenzollern was the imperial yacht of Kaiser Wilhelm II, used extensively for diplomatic voyages and serving as a floating command post during several early twentieth-century foreign policy crises, including the 1905 Agadir-related tensions at Tangier. The vessel was interned and effectively decommissioned after 1918.

Cameroon's use of the ship as a coin subject is rooted in the territory's history as a German protectorate from 1884 until the British and French partition following World War I. The Hohenzollern visited German Kamerun waters during the colonial period, giving the issuer a plausible — if loosely stretched — territorial connection to the subject.