500 Francs CFA Pangolin

正面描述	Right-facing effigy of King Charles III occupying the central field, rendered in high relief against a finely engraved scale-pattern background evoking pangolin skin. The date 2024 is divided by the portrait, flanked on either side. A circular legend surrounds the design along the periphery, separated by a row of raised dots. The mintmaster initials MJ appear in the lower right field.
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附加信息	Rhodium plating on numismatic silver is a finishing technique borrowed from the jewelry trade, applied here primarily to prevent tarnish and preserve the struck surface detail of what is a notoriously difficult animal to render in relief. The pangolin has become a recurring subject in African wildlife coinage largely because it is now the world's most trafficked mammal — demand from Asian markets for its scales and meat has driven all eight species toward extinction risk, a fact several mints have leveraged for conservation-themed issues since the mid-2010s. Cameroon hosts both the giant ground pangolin and the white-bellied tree pangolin within its borders.

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