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2000 Francs Treasure Island

Issuer Bank of Central African States
Year 2024
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Weight 62.2 g
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Obverse script Latin
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Reverse lettering Treasure Island
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The Bank of Central African States — the BEAC — serves six member nations across central Africa, none of which have any geographic or historical connection to Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel. That disconnect is the point. The BEAC has aggressively courted the collector bullion market since the 2010s, issuing themed silver rounds under CFA franc denominations that will never see a cashier's counter anywhere in Cameroon, Chad, or Gabon.

KM#713 places this squarely in a numbered series, meaning the catalog recognized enough BEAC collector issues to warrant systematic tracking — a quiet indicator of just how prolific this program has become.

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