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500 Francs Adele Bloch-Bauer II
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 500 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Cameroon is prominently displayed in the center of the field, featuring a shield bearing scales of justice surmounted by a five-pointed star, flanked by two crossed fasces above a scroll bearing the bilingual legend REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN / REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON. The date 2022 appears above the shield, while the motto words PAIX / PEACE and TRAVAIL / WORK and PATRIE / FATHERLAND are inscribed in bilingual form around the upper portion of the field. The circular legend REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN arcs along the left rim and CAMEROUN along the right, with the denomination 500 FRANCS CFA inscribed in large characters along the lower field. The fineness mark Ag 999 appears in the lower left field, and the Mint of Poland privy mark is visible to the lower right of the arms. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Adele Bloch-Bauer II was painted by Gustav Klimt in 1912, several years after the more celebrated gold portrait. When the Nazis seized the collection from the Bloch-Bauer family in 1938, both works hung in Vienna's Österreichische Galerie for decades under the fiction of voluntary donation. Maria Altmann's legal fight to recover them ended in 2006 with an Austrian arbitration panel ruling in her favor — the paintings left Austria that year, and Adele II sold at Christie's New York for $87.9 million.
Cameroon's Central African CFA franc issues in this collector series are struck by private mints under license and carry no practical monetary function.