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50 Francs CFA Andrea Doria
| Issuer | Burkina Faso |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 50 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DU BURKINA FASO Unité Progrès Justice 50 FRANCS CFA |
| Reverse description | The brass centre depicts a detailed broadside view of the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria under way, rendered in fine relief against billowing clouds of smoke rising from the ship's funnel. The copper-nickel outer ring continues the maritime scene, showing the liner's full hull profile extending into the ring, with stylized waves and rocky coastal elements in the lower field. The legend ANDREA DORIA arcs along the upper portion of the outer ring in incuse lettering, and the date 2017 appears in the lower field of the ring below the central design. |
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The Andrea Doria was an Italian ocean liner that sank in July 1956 after colliding with the MS Stockholm off Nantucket — one of the most documented maritime disasters of the postwar period, partly because enough passengers survived to tell it and because the wreck remains diveable today. Burkina Faso, a landlocked country with no coastline and no historical connection to Italian maritime history, issues these CFA-denomination pieces almost exclusively for the collector export market through licensed distributors.