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3000 Francs CFA Zeus
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cameroon's CFA franc is issued under BEAC authority, meaning individual member states have no independent monetary policy — yet Cameroon and several other CEMAC nations have found a profitable workaround through collector coinage, licensing their name to European minting houses (predominantly Monnaie de Paris and private operators) to produce high-face-value pieces that will never circulate. This coin is one of those issues: a 3000-franc denomination on a currency where the average daily wage in rural areas barely clears 2000 francs.
The Zeus theme places it squarely in a genre of numismatic novelty products aimed at the secondary collector market, not at Cameroonian citizens.