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| Issuer | Chad |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Reverse description | Truncated bust of Peter I the Great facing three-quarters to the right, wearing a bicorne hat and military uniform adorned with a double-headed eagle imperial Order badge at the chest, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The arc legend '350th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF' curves along the upper border, while the dates '1672' and '2022' are positioned at the lower left and lower right of the bust respectively. The inscription 'PETER I THE GREAT' curves along the lower border, completing the commemorative legend. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Chad's 350 Francs CFA denomination is itself the anomaly worth noting — the Central African CFA franc zone issues no such denomination in ordinary circulation. These pieces are struck by the Monnaie de Paris or affiliated private mints explicitly for the collector market, with Chad lending its issuing authority to a coin that will never see Ndjamena.
Peter the Great's connection to Chad is, of course, nonexistent. The tsar who dragged Russia toward European modernity by sheer autocratic force died in 1725, three centuries before this coin was authorized.