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2000 Francs Freydis Eiriksdottir
| Issuer | Republic of Cameroon |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Weight | 62.2 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a dramatic high-relief effigy of Freydis Eiriksdóttir, the legendary Norse explorer and daughter of Eirik the Red, rendered in a heroic warrior composition. She is shown in three-quarter view, clad in Viking armour with a fur-trimmed cloak — the fur applied in vivid red colourisation — her flowing hair adorned with braids. Her right hand raises a sword toward her shoulder while her left rests upon a large circular Viking shield engraved with runic and geometric symbols. A raven in flight is depicted in the upper left field, a symbol of Odin, while Norse knotwork ornaments fill the background. The inscription FREYDIS EIRIKSDÓTTIR appears in a vertical cartouche along the left field. |
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Freydís Eiríksdóttir appears in both the Greenlanders' Saga and the Saga of Erik the Red, though the two accounts give sharply contradictory portraits — one credits her with fierce leadership during a skraeling attack at Vinland, the other accuses her of orchestrating the murder of an entire Norse family to seize their ship. Cameroon's choice to issue a coin for a figure whose historicity is reconstructed almost entirely from two irreconcilable medieval Icelandic manuscripts is, to put it plainly, an unusual editorial decision.