500 Francs Bananas

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Reversbeschreibung	A large, highly detailed and naturalistically rendered bunch of bananas with radiating leaves is depicted centrally, occupying the majority of the field and shown as if viewed from above. The denomination legend CINQ CENTS FRANCS arcs along the upper periphery, with the numeral 500 positioned in the lower exergual area. To the lower left of the central motif appears a rectangular privy mark or logo containing the date 2002 and a ring of stars, associated with the Monnaie de Paris. The outer border repeats the same sawtooth or zigzag decorative pattern as the obverse.
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Reverslegende	CINQ CENTS FRANCS 500 2002 (Translation: Five hundred francs.)
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Zusätzliche Informationen	Rwanda's "Bananas" coin was part of a wave of novelty silver issues produced for the international collector market in the early 2000s — coins bearing little relationship to the issuing country's actual monetary policy or circulation needs. The Banque Nationale du Rwanda licensed its name to a European distributor, a practice common among small nations during this period seeking modest foreign exchange revenue from collector premiums. These were never intended for domestic use and almost certainly never reached Rwanda.