250 Francs CFA Giraffe

Senegal issues coins under the Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest framework, but this piece was produced for the collector market through arrangements with European minting distributors — it has no meaningful circulation history in Senegal or anywhere in the BCEAO zone. The 250 Francs CFA denomination itself exists largely as a notional unit for these fractional gold issues; standard circulating BCEAO coinage stops at 500 Francs.

At 0.5g, this belongs to the micro-gold category that expanded sharply in the 2010s as mints targeted entry-level bullion buyers.