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500 Francs CFA Wukong monkey king
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 悟空 WUKONG |
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Wukong — the Monkey King from the 16th-century novel Journey to the West — has become one of the most commercially licensed figures in modern numismatics, appearing on collector issues from dozens of mints and issuing authorities worldwide. Cameroon, a Francophone nation with no cultural connection to the character, issues these coins under the BEAC framework specifically for the collector export market; they will never circulate.
The KM#758 reference places this squarely in the modern fantasy-issue category that Pobjoy, Scottsdale, and similar private minting partners have produced for African CFA issuers since the 2000s.