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500 Francs Madonna di Corridonia
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (Bank of Central African States, 1973-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the country name, denomination, fineness, and date inscribed within the square format. The legend reads REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN with the date 2017, silver fineness Ag 999, and the denomination 500 FRANCS CFA, all rendered in Latin script within the plain squared field. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN 2017 Ag 999 500 FRANCS CFA (Translation: Republic of Cameroon.) |
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The Madonna di Corridonia is a venerated Byzantine-style icon housed in the Sanctuary of the Madonna delle Grazie in Corridonia, a small town in the Marche region of central Italy. Cameroon's mint program through the Monnaie de Paris has produced a long series of devotional silver issues targeting the European Catholic collector market — coins that circulate almost exclusively through dealer networks and never approach the country of issue.
The .999 fineness places this outside the older .925 standard common to French-administered African franc issues, a deliberate choice for bullion-adjacent collector pieces dating from the mid-2000s onward.