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1500 Francs CFA HMS Beagle
| Issuer | Ivory Coast |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Diameter | 13.92 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | H.M.S. BEAGLE *2009* |
| Edge | Reeded |
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The HMS Beagle's second voyage (1831–1836) is remembered almost exclusively for Darwin, but the ship's primary mission was hydrographic survey — charting the coastlines of South America for the British Admiralty. Darwin was an afterthought, a gentleman's companion invited largely to keep captain Robert FitzRoy from the isolation that had driven his predecessor to suicide.
Ivory Coast's issuance has no historical connection to the Beagle; these 1g gold minors are produced for the collector market under licensing arrangements common to several West African CFA franc issuers since the 2000s.