2000 Francs Manipura

Cameroon's central bank has intermittently licensed its name to European bullion and novelty minting houses — primarily Bavarian and Czech operations — since the 1990s, producing legal-tender face-value coins with no practical circulation history and denominations that bear no relationship to the CFA franc economy. This piece belongs to that lineage. Manipura is the solar plexus chakra in Hindu and Buddhist tantric tradition, a concept with no historical or cultural connection to Cameroon.