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250 Francs CFA Angela Merkel
| Issuer | Senegal |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Composition | Gold (.999) |
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| Reverse description | A right-facing portrait bust of Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, occupies the central field, rendered in a stylised relief with short hair and characteristic features. The curved legend BUNDESKANZLERIN ANGELA MERKEL arcs along the upper and right periphery. In the lower field, the inscriptions 1/2 G .999 FINE GOLD appear to the left and SEIT 2005 to the right, indicating the coin's gold content and the year of Merkel's chancellorship. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Senegal has no constitutional authority to issue commemorative coinage bearing foreign heads of state, so pieces like this one exist entirely outside official monetary channels — produced by private minting operations exploiting the nominal CFA franc denomination for marketing purposes. The "250 Francs CFA" face value is effectively fictitious; no such denomination circulates in the UEMOA monetary union.
Merkel was still serving as German Chancellor when this was struck, which gave the issue a veneer of topicality. At 0.5 grams of .999 gold, the intrinsic metal value dwarfs the stated face denomination by a factor of roughly forty.