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3000 Francs CFA Krampus and Santa Claus
| Issuer | Gabon |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a colorful effigy of Santa Claus rendered in a festive, illustrative style, symbolizing generosity and the Christmas tradition. Below the central motif, the Coat of Arms of Gabon is displayed in the lower field. The surrounding legend reads RÉPUBLIQUE GABONAISE, with the face value 3000 FRANCS CFA and the year of issue 2025 inscribed alongside the weight designation 3 OZ and the fineness mark AG999. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Gabon's participation in the European novelty bullion market is a long-running arrangement in which the Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale authorizes issues bearing Gabonese legal tender status but designed, produced, and distributed entirely for collector markets in Europe and North America. This coin has no meaningful circulation history in Gabon and was never intended to. The Krampus figure — a horned Alpine folkloric punisher of misbehaving children, rooted in pre-Christian central European tradition — has become a reliable seller in the themed bullion sector since roughly 2013.