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| Issuer | Bank of Central African States (BEAC) |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Diamond Diadem and Coronation Earrings, after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley. The Coat of Arms of Cameroon appears at the bottom of the field. The surrounding legend bears the Queen's name, denomination, date, fineness, and the bilingual national motto of Cameroon in both French and English. |
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| Reverse lettering | EARTH |
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The Bank of Central African States issues currency on behalf of six member nations — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and the Republic of the Congo — all sharing the CFA franc under a monetary union whose framework dates to the post-colonial agreements of 1972. That arrangement means a coin struck under BEAC authority carries no single national identity, a bureaucratic reality that has long made the bloc's collector issues something of an afterthought in the numismatic literature.
KM#517 is a modern bullion-adjacent commemorative with no particular circulation history to speak of.