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250 Francs CFA Puijila
| Issuer | Senegal |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 250 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Senegal is displayed prominently at centre, featuring a quartered shield with a lion passant and a baobab tree, flanked by two laurel branches and surmounted by a five-pointed star. Motto scrolls on the shield read UN PEUPLE, UNE FOI, and UN BUT. The legend RÉPUBLIQUE DU SÉNÉGAL arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 250 FRANCS CFA is inscribed along the lower periphery. A small ornamental rosette separates the arms from the value below. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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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.