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250 Francs CFA Spinosaurus
| Issuer | Senegal |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | RÉPUBLIQUE DU SÉNÉGAL UN PEUPLE UN BUT UNE FOI 250 FRANCS CFA (Translation: Republic of Senegal One Nation, One Goal, One Faith) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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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.