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250 Francs CFA Spinosaurus
| Issuer | Senegal |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Senegal occupies the centre of the field, depicting a quartered shield bearing a lion passant and a baobab tree, flanked by two laurel branches and surmounted by a five-pointed star. Scroll work below the shield bears the motto inscriptions 'UN PEUPLE', 'UNE FOI', and 'UN BUT'. The legend 'RÉPUBLIQUE DU SÉNÉGAL' curves along the upper periphery, while the denomination '250 FRANCS CFA' is inscribed in bold relief along the lower periphery. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Senegal is a member of the West African Economic and Monetary Union, meaning its coinage authority is technically shared across eight nations under the Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest — which makes issues like this one largely collector-market products with nominal legal tender status rather than anything approaching circulation coinage. The 0.5g gold format is a modern bullion-adjacent product aimed squarely at the fractional gold novelty market.
Spinosaurus itself was first described from Moroccan and Egyptian specimens, with the most significant skeletal revisions coming from a 2014 *Nature* paper that repositioned it as a semi-aquatic predator — a finding that upended decades of palaeontological consensus.