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500 Francs Maids of honor
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Weight | 17.50 g |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse field is occupied by a full-color reproduction of 'Las Meninas' (1656), the celebrated masterwork of Diego Velázquez, applied using a color-printing technique directly onto the coin's surface. The composition depicts the Infanta Margarita Teresa of Spain at center, attended by her ladies-in-waiting (meninas) and other court figures, set within the royal palace in Madrid; a mirror in the background reflects the images of King Philip IV and Queen Mariana. The artist's inscription 'DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ' appears in raised Latin lettering along a decorative banner at the lower edge of the colored field. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cameroon's "Maids of Honor" series belongs to a wave of privately commissioned legal tender issues produced for the collector market under licensing arrangements with the Cameroonian government — a practice that accelerated sharply after 2010 as European bullion dealers sought African sovereign authority for themed silver releases. The coins are struck in Europe, most often by the Berne-based Swissmint contractors or Central European private mints, and have no circulation history whatsoever in Cameroon itself.
The 500 Francs denomination, while nominally valid, represents roughly one U.S. dollar in face value — a figure that has remained economically marginal since the CFA franc's peg to the euro was set in 1999 at 655.957 francs to one euro.