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1000 Francs St. Blessed Matrona
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (Bank of Central African States, 1973-date) |
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| Obverse description | Fourth-generation effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right occupies the center of the square flan, with the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Cameroon positioned below the portrait. Mint marks appear at the lower left. The surrounding legend and technical specifications are inscribed along the borders of the coin. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Matrona of Moscow — born blind in 1885, canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2004 — is among the most venerated saints in contemporary Russian Orthodoxy, with her relics at the Pokrovsky Convent drawing longer queues than Lenin's tomb on many days. Cameroon has no ecclesiastical or historical connection to her whatsoever. The issue belongs to a well-documented pattern in which the Yaoundé government licenses its minting authority to European distributors producing collector coins targeting niche devotional markets, primarily in Eastern Europe and Russia.
The actual minting was almost certainly contracted through a European private mint rather than the Cameroonian state.