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500 Francs Greek Gods
| Issuer | Bank of the Republic of Burundi |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Currency | Franc (1962-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Three Greek deities are rendered in deeply sculpted high relief against a flat field. To the left, Ares stands in full armour, wearing a crested Corinthian helmet and cloak, bearing a spear and a round shield decorated with a serpent motif. At centre, Aphrodite is depicted as a draped standing female figure with flowing hair, her name inscribed on a ribbon banner below her feet. To the right, Hephaistos is shown seated on a tree-stump anvil, raising a hammer aloft, with tools of the forge at his side; his name appears on a banner in the upper right field. The names 'ARES', 'APHRODITE', and 'HEPHAISTOS' are inscribed on scrolling ribbon legends throughout the composition. |
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Burundi has no meaningful historical or cultural connection to the Greek pantheon. These large-format silver kilos are issued explicitly for the collector market, with Burundi functioning as a licensing authority rather than a monetary one — the coins will never circulate, and the issuing bank's involvement is nominal at best. The KM#94 reference places this within a broader series of Burundian collector issues that began proliferating in the 2010s as several African nations discovered the revenue potential of selling numismatic licenses to European distributors.
At one kilogram of .999 silver, production tolerances on pieces this size frequently produce surface inconsistencies near the edges — a known characteristic of the format, not a strike anomaly specific to this issue.