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500 Francs California gold rush
| Issuer | Bank of Central African States (BEAC) |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 500 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN 2023 500 FRANCS CFA (Translation: Republic of Cameroon.) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The BEAC issues commemoratives with some regularity, but this piece — tying a Central African monetary authority to the California Gold Rush of 1848–1855 — has no meaningful historical connection between issuer and subject. It belongs to the broad category of legal-tender novelty issues produced for the collector market rather than circulation, a practice the BEAC and similar authorities have leaned into since the 2000s as a secondary revenue stream. The aluminium-brass composition makes the economics plain.