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250 Francs CFA Puijila
| Issuer | Senegal |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (1945-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | PREDATORS - PUJILA DAWINI - EXTINCT - 2023 1/2 G.9999 FINEST GOLD |
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Puijila darwini, the prehistoric pinniped whose skull this coin commemorates, was discovered in a landlocked Nunavut lake bed in 2007 — a find that rewrote the understood evolutionary transition between terrestrial and aquatic mammals. Senegal has no geographic or paleontological connection to the species whatsoever; this is a Pobjoy Mint-style numismatic product issued under CFA franc authority purely for the collector market, a common arrangement among West African franc-zone states whose mint agreements permit exactly this kind of unrelated commemorative output.