2000 Francs Notre-Dame

The Bank of Central African States serves six member nations simultaneously — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and the Republic of the Congo — which creates the unusual administrative situation where a single commemorative issue carries legal tender status across half a dozen sovereign states at once. This coin was struck the same year Notre-Dame de Paris burned, on April 15, 2019, making the timing either prescient or unfortunate depending on when in the calendar year the issue was authorized.

The digital color printing process applied to the .999 fine planchet is a relatively recent development in the commemorative market, pioneered largely by the Monnaie de Paris and adopted widely by African issuing authorities working through European minting contractors in the 2010s.