1500 Francs Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin

Graf von Zeppelin died in 1917, four years before the airship company bearing his name produced the LZ 126 — later flown to the United States as war reparations and commissioned into the U.S. Navy as the USS Los Angeles. Niger's issue sits in a crowded field of tiny gold fractionals produced for the collector market in the early 2010s, a format aggressively marketed through European distributors with tenuous thematic ties to the issuing nation.