2000 Francs Cecil The Lion

Cecil was a Zimbabwean lion killed by an American trophy hunter in July 2015, an event that triggered an international media storm and brief but intense pressure on several governments to tighten wildlife import regulations. Cameroon — a country with its own fraught poaching history and minimal direct connection to Cecil — issued this coin three years after the story had largely faded from public consciousness, squarely in the genre of the African nation wildlife bullion-adjacent series marketed almost entirely to European and North American collectors.