See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration! or register with email

Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!

3000 Francs Kama Sutra

Issuer Cameroon (1960-date)
Year 2019
Type Non-circulating coin
Value Log in to see details
Currency Log in to see details
Composition Log in to see details
Weight Log in to see details
Diameter Log in to see details
Thickness Log in to see details
Shape Log in to see details
Technique Log in to see details
Orientation Log in to see details
Engraver(s) Log in to see details
In circulation to Log in to see details
Reference(s) Log in to see details
Obverse description Log in to see details
Obverse script Log in to see details
Obverse lettering Log in to see details
Reverse description Log in to see details
Reverse script Log in to see details
Reverse lettering Log in to see details
Edge Smooth
Mint Log in to see details
Mintage 2019 - Antique finish - 500
Additional information

Cameroon's economic sovereignty over its coinage is largely nominal — the country uses the CFA franc, and its collectible issues are produced under license by private minting houses, typically European, with no domestic striking capacity involved. This piece is one of a long-running series of erotic-themed silver coins marketed almost exclusively to Western collectors, a product category that multiplied sharply across African nominal issuers after 2010 as mint operators sought new revenue streams from legal-tender novelties.

The 3000-franc face value has no practical relationship to circulation; at issue, spot silver alone exceeded it by a factor of roughly forty.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE