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500 Francs CFA Endeavour
| Issuer | Ivory Coast |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Côte d'Ivoire is displayed prominently in the center of the obverse field. The arms feature an elephant head above a rising sun and crossed palm branches, enclosed within a circular border. The legend REPUBLIQUE DE COTE D'IVOIRE arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 500 FRANCS CFA appears along the lower portion of the coin. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DE COTE D`IVOIRE 500 FRANCS CFA (Translation: Republic of Ivory Coast) |
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The Ivory Coast has no meaningful historical connection to the Space Shuttle program, which is precisely the point — these BCEAO-framework commemoratives were licensed vanity issues produced for the international collector market, not for domestic circulation. Côte d'Ivoire's franc CFA zone membership gave it the legal mechanism to issue commemorative coinage, and private minting firms exploited that window aggressively in the late 2000s.
KM#52 is one of dozens of such issues from this period bearing Ivorian authority but minted entirely abroad for export.