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3000 Francs New York, ruthenium

Issuer Bank of Central African States (BEAC)
Year 2022
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Shape Rectangular
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Plain
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The Bank of Central African States serves six member nations — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and the Republic of Congo — yet issues collector pieces like this one with no meaningful connection to any of them. New York has no monetary, historical, or diplomatic significance to the CFA franc zone. The ruthenium plating is the actual selling point: the element, atomic number 44, is one of the rarest platinum-group metals, mined almost exclusively as a byproduct of South African platinum refining.

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