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500 Francs CFA Fireworks of Victory
| Issuer | Benin (1975-date) |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 500 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (2020) - Proof - 5,000 |
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Benin's commemorative program is run through the Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest and largely contracted to European private mints — this piece almost certainly produced in Poland or the Czech Republic, as is typical of the collector-market issues bearing the BCEAO imprimatur. The "Fireworks of Victory" theme references Allied victory commemorations, though Benin itself — as the French colonial territory of Dahomey — had no independent role in World War II, its soldiers having served under the French Expeditionary Forces.
Struck for the collector market exclusively. No meaningful circulation history exists.