2000 Francs Dürer's Rhinoceros

Dürer's famous woodcut rhinoceros of 1515 was drawn entirely from a written description — he never saw the animal. The rhino in question was a gift from Sultan Muzaffar Shah II of Gujarat to King Manuel I of Portugal, and it drowned en route to Rome when the ship carrying it sank off the Ligurian coast. Dürer's anatomically fanciful interpretation, with its plated armor and dorsal horn, became the dominant European image of the species for over two centuries, reproduced across maps, natural histories, and tapestries despite being demonstrably inaccurate.

Cameroon's Central African franc coinage is issued under agreement with the Monnaie de Paris but increasingly through private minting arrangements targeting the collector market.