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500 Francs Don't Tread On Me Flag
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, diademed and draped, set within a raised circular border at the centre of a flag-shaped flan rendered in wavy relief to simulate a billowing flag. The legend REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN arcs along the upper portion of the circular border, with the date 2021 divided across the lower field flanking the portrait and the denomination 500 FRANCS CFA inscribed below the effigy within the circle. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN 2021 500 FRANCS CFA (Translation: Republic of Cameroon.) |
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Cameroon's post-independence coinage authority has issued a long series of bullion-adjacent "collector" pieces with no meaningful domestic circulation — this is one of them. The country joined the CFA franc zone at independence in 1960, and its 500-franc denomination exists primarily as a legal-tender vehicle for third-party-licensed novelty issues sold wholesale to overseas distributors.
The Gadsden Flag design originated with Christopher Gadsden, a South Carolina delegate who presented it to the Continental Congress in 1775. Its appearance on a Cameroonian coin is purely commercial.