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500 Francs Caribbean reef shark
| Issuer | Banki Nkuru y'u Rwanda (National Bank of Rwanda) |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Technique | Milled, Colored |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKI NKURU Y'U RWANDA REPUBLIKA Y'U RWANDA UBUMWE-UMURIMO-GUKUNDA IGIHUGU Ag 999 2010 AMAFARANGA 500 MAGANA ATANU |
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| Reverse lettering | CARCHARHINUS PEREZI |
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Rwanda has no coastline and no Caribbean reef sharks. This coin belongs to a category of modern commemorative issues produced primarily for the collector market, where the issuing nation is essentially licensing its mint authority to a distributor — in this case almost certainly B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt or a comparable European specialty minter producing themed wildlife series for landlocked African sovereigns during the 2000s and early 2010s.
The "500 Francs" face value is nominal; no collector was ever expected to spend it. Rwanda's actual circulating coinage topped out well below that denomination.