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500 Francs Christmas
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 500 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Dear Santa I have been good all year week, DAY! To: Santa Claus Address: North Pole HO HO HO REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN 2022 500 FRANCS CFA (Translation: Republic of Cameroon.) |
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Cameroon's Christmas coin program occupies an odd corner of the modern collector market — these are legal tender issues of the Republic of Cameroon, but they are struck for the numismatic export trade and have no meaningful domestic circulation history. The 100-gram copper-nickel format places this squarely in the novelty bullion-adjacent category that proliferated among West and Central African monetary authorities after roughly 2010, when several nations began licensing their minting rights to European distributors.
KM#455 attribution places this within a series that expanded rapidly through the early 2020s.