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500 Francs CFA France Bottle Cap
| Issuer | Bank of Central African States |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is also shaped as a bottle cap with a fully crimped scalloped rim, mirroring the obverse profile. The entire central field is occupied by a coloured representation of the French national tricolour flag, rendered as three equal vertical bands of blue, white, and red in vivid enamel. No legends or inscriptions appear on this face, allowing the flag motif to fill the recessed inner disc completely. The silver rim surrounding the flag provides a clean contrast to the colourful central design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Bank of Central African States issues currency for six member nations — Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon — under a monetary agreement with France that has kept the CFA franc pegged, first to the French franc and since 1999 to the euro. This bottle cap-shaped piece belongs to a recurring novelty format the issuer has used to attract the collector market, a revenue stream increasingly important to smaller monetary authorities with limited numismatic infrastructure.