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500 Francs CFA South Korea Bottle Cap
| Issuer | Chad |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 500 Francs CFA |
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| Reverse description | The entire central field is occupied by a full-colour depiction of the national flag of South Korea (Taegukgi), set against a white background. The flag displays the red and blue Taeguk (yin-yang) symbol at its centre, surrounded by four black trigrams (Gwae) positioned at each corner — Geon (upper left), Gon (upper right), Gam (lower left), and Li (lower right) — in accordance with the official flag design. The scalloped rim of the bottle-cap shaped coin frames the flag design on all sides. No legends or inscriptions are present on the reverse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Chad's CFA franc is issued under the authority of the Bank of Central African States, which means a landlocked Sahelian nation had to formally coordinate with a six-country monetary union to produce a coin celebrating South Korean soju culture. That bureaucratic incongruity is part of why these novelty issues exist at all — the BEAC licenses small commemorative runs to generate hard currency revenue entirely detached from domestic monetary circulation.
The bottle cap shape is achieved through a scalloped die strike, not a separate fabrication process.