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250 Francs CFA Thomas Müntzer
| Issuer | Republic of Senegal |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | A three-quarter portrait bust of Thomas Müntzer, the German Reformation-era theologian and revolutionary leader, dominates the upper field, rendered in high relief with characteristic flat clerical cap and robes. Behind and below the portrait, a detailed panoramic cityscape — evoking a late-medieval German town with church spires and fortified walls — extends across the lower field as a background vignette. The commemorative dates 1525-2025 appear to the left of the bust, while the fineness inscription 1/2 G .9999 FINEST GOLD is positioned vertically along the upper right rim. The subject's name THOMAS MÜNTZER is boldly engraved in raised letters across the lower exergue. |
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Thomas Müntzer led the radical wing of the German Reformation and was executed in 1525 following the catastrophic defeat of the peasant armies at the Battle of Frankenhausen — five centuries before this coin's issue date. His appropriation by the East German state as a proto-socialist hero made him one of the GDR's most heavily commemorated historical figures, which lends a certain irony to his appearance on a Senegalese franc issued half a millennium after his beheading.