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500 Francs CFA Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | A full-colour reproduction of Gustav Klimt's unfinished oil portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl (c. 1917–1918) occupies the central field, depicting the subject in a pale dress against a soft green background. The surrounding field is rendered in rose-gold tone and bears ornamental Art Nouveau-style relief patterning in homage to Klimt's decorative idiom. An amber-coloured inlaid gemstone is set into the left portion of the field, serving as a distinctive decorative and collectible element. The artist's name 'Gustav Klimt' is inscribed vertically along the right portion of the field in stylised lettering. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Amalie Zuckerkandl was one of four sisters painted by Gustav Klimt in his 1917–18 group portrait commission — a work left unfinished when Klimt died of stroke in February 1918. Three of the four women depicted were murdered in Nazi concentration camps, including Amalie herself, killed at Auschwitz in 1942. The painting survived only because one sitter's family had already emigrated. Cameroon has no historical connection to any of this; the coin is a bullion-adjacent collector piece produced under the Central African franc system, which routinely licenses European artistic and historical subjects for the numismatic export market.