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2000 Francs Wizard
| Issuer | Bank of Central African States |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Diameter | 50 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A high-relief portrait of a bearded wizard in three-quarter view dominates the field, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a heavy cloak, his long-nailed hands cradling a large inlaid fluorescent green crystal orb. An owl perches on his right shoulder, and he holds a twisted staff topped with a forked finial in his right hand. The background features a detailed townscape with architectural elements, scattered keys, maps, and alchemical apparatus. The legend 'WIZARD' appears on a signboard in the upper right field. |
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The Bank of Central African States — the BEAC — issues collector coinage on behalf of six member nations: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. This piece carries no single national identity by design, a deliberate construct of the 1972 monetary union that replaced each country's post-independence central bank with a single shared institution. The fluorescent insert is a production technique that became fashionable among bullion-adjacent collector issues in the early 2020s, achieved by embedding a resin compound activated under UV light into a milled cavity of the planchet before striking.