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500 Francs Madonna di Corridonia
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 500 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| 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.