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250 Francs Three musketeers, Porthos
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de Djibouti |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 250 Francs |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Part of a four-coin series issued by Djibouti commemorating Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel, this piece depicts Porthos — the most physically imposing of the three musketeers and, in Dumas's characterization, the vainest. Djibouti's central bank has made a habit of issuing shaped silver collector coins with literary and cultural themes, a revenue strategy common among small-nation mints with negligible domestic numismatic demand. The rectangular format is the tell: 40 x 25 mm places it firmly in the shaped-coin collector market dominated by European distributors.