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200 Francs Nefertiti, left
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 200 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a vivid full-color effigy of the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti in half-length bust facing half-left, rendered in polychrome enamel applied coloring. She wears her iconic flat-topped blue crown with yellow band and red-and-turquoise banding, and a broad multicolored usekh collar necklace across her shoulders. The background features the same concentric guilloche circular design as the obverse, rendered in uncolored relief silver, with the bust of Nefertiti overlapping it toward the right side of the flan. The overall composition presents a striking contrast between the colored portrait and the bright mirrored silver guilloche field. |
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Part of a wave of African-themed bullion issues produced for the European collector market, this Cameroonian piece has no meaningful connection to ancient Egypt — Nefertiti was an 18th Dynasty queen of the Nile Valley, roughly 3,000 kilometers north of Cameroon. The Republic of Cameroon, like several other African nations with loose numismatic licensing arrangements, lends its name to issues conceived, designed, and sold entirely by European mint and marketing firms.
KM#100 is one of several Nefertiti-themed strikes in this series, distinguished by the leftward orientation of the portrait.