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500 Francs Baby
| Issuer | Bank of Central African States (BEAC) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (Bank of Central African States, 1973-date) |
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| Reverse description | Colorful reproduction of a detail from the painting Baby (Cradle) by Gustav Klimt, executed circa 1917–1918, depicting a swaddled infant nestled among richly patterned textiles rendered in Klimt's characteristic decorative style with vivid polychrome coloring. An amber insert is incorporated at the left side of the design, adding a three-dimensional gemstone element to the composition. The artist's name GUSTAV KLIMT appears as a legend within the field. |
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| Mintage | 2021 MW - Proof - 555 |
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The "Baby" series from BEAC has leaned hard into novelty coinage aimed at the collector gift market — amber inserts, oversized flans, precious metal compositions that would never survive a day in Central African circulation. These are struck for export revenue, not monetary use, a practice the BEAC has pursued aggressively since the early 2000s to offset the limitations of a shared currency zone spanning six member states with sharply divergent economies.
The amber inclusion is cast resin, not geological amber, a distinction that matters if provenance is ever questioned.