50 Francs CFA Andrea Doria

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.