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2000 Francs CFA Heracles
| Uitgever | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Jaar | 2025 |
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| Gewicht | 62.5 g |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Central field depicts Mount Olympus shrouded in clouds, rendered in high relief with dramatic sculptural depth. The design is framed by a laurel wreath border and an ornamental Greek key (meander) pattern running along the inner rim. The overall composition evokes classical Hellenic artistic tradition, with the mountainous landscape occupying the full field. |
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| Schrift keerzijde | Latin |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Cameroon has issued commemorative silver under the BEAC framework for decades, but the 2000 Francs CFA denomination has increasingly become a vehicle for large-format collector pieces with no plausible circulation function — this Heracles issue being a clear example. The selective gilding technique, applied post-striking to isolated design elements, became fashionable in European mint production around the early 2000s and has never lost commercial traction in the collector market.
Heracles appears on coinage across dozens of issuing authorities with no geographic connection to him whatsoever, a phenomenon driven entirely by wholesale numismatic product pipelines rather than any national narrative.