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2000 Francs CFA Dionysus
| Issuer | Bank of Central African States (BEAC) |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A richly coloured and deeply sculpted scene depicting Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, standing at centre, draped in a leopard skin and crowned with a wreath of ivy and grape clusters. He raises a golden chalice from which wine pours into a bowl held by a satyr at lower left. At his feet reclines a semi-draped female figure adorned with grape vines. The background field is populated in high relief with additional satyrs, putti, grapevines, and amphora, creating a densely composed Baroque-inspired composition. The legend DIONYSUS is incused along the upper left field. |
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The Bank of Central African States issues commemorative silver under the CFA franc system, a currency framework established by France in 1945 and still pegged to the euro through the French Treasury. That arrangement has drawn sustained criticism from African economists and politicians for decades, most visibly when Senegalese President Macky Sall and Ivorian President Ouattara publicly debated reform in 2019–2020. A Greek deity on a Central African commemorative is a straightforward commercial decision — these pieces are struck for the international collector market, not for circulation in member states.