50 Francs Hans in Luck

The "Hans in Luck" series draws from the Brothers Grimm tale first published in their 1819 collection — a story about a man who progressively trades down from a lump of gold to nothing, and considers himself fortunate throughout. The irony of anchoring that narrative to a gold coin is presumably intentional. Burundi has issued numerous small-format gold pieces through European minting intermediaries, with the Bank of the Republic lending its name to products aimed squarely at the collector market rather than domestic circulation.