This piece belongs to a wave of private-mint fantasy issues struck for the collectibles market under licensing arrangements, using the nominal authority of Chad's BEAC membership as a legal fiction. Chad has no independent monetary authority — the CFA franc is issued by the Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale — making "Chadian" gold issues of this type essentially marketing constructs with a face value nobody intends to spend.
At 0.0311 grams of .999 gold, the metal content is fractional to the point of near-irrelevance as bullion.
This piece belongs to a wave of private-mint fantasy issues struck for the collectibles market under licensing arrangements, using the nominal authority of Chad's BEAC membership as a legal fiction. Chad has no independent monetary authority — the CFA franc is issued by the Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale — making "Chadian" gold issues of this type essentially marketing constructs with a face value nobody intends to spend.
At 0.0311 grams of .999 gold, the metal content is fractional to the point of near-irrelevance as bullion.