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1500 Francs CFA Black Rhinoceros
| Issuer | Togo |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A detailed portrait of a black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is depicted in left-facing profile, rendered with fine numismatic engraving detail highlighting the animal's characteristic double horn, thick hide, and powerful musculature. The central design is framed within a raised pentagonal border set against a polished field. The inscribed legend THE BLACK RHINOCEROS appears beneath the central motif along the lower interior of the pentagon. |
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The geometry here is immediately suspicious: a 40 mm diameter at 0.1418 g of gold is physically inconsistent with any known planchet — that weight corresponds to roughly 1/200th of a troy ounce, a thickness measured in microns at that diameter. This is almost certainly a gold-layered or gold-plated base metal issue marketed under a nominal gold classification, a practice common among Togo's CFA-denominated collector releases produced by European private mints, typically Berne-based or Polish operations striking under West African issuing authority licenses.