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500 Francs Girl Defending Herself against Eros

Issuer Cameroon (1960-date)
Year 2024
Type Non-circulating coin
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Obverse script Latin
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Mintage 2024 - Proof - 666
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The underlying design derives from William-Adolphe Bouguereau's 1880 Academic painting of the same name, part of a long-running series of bullion-adjacent collector pieces issued under Cameroonian authority — a jurisdiction with no meaningful historical connection to the source imagery but a well-established relationship with European minting houses, particularly the Monnaie de Paris and various private mints operating under CFA franc zone licensing arrangements.

At .999 silver plate over copper at 61g, this is squarely a numismatic novelty rather than a bullion instrument. The KM#671 reference places it within an expansive Cameroonian collector catalog that has grown sharply since the 2010s.

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