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500 Francs Mao Zedong
| Issuer | Cameroon › Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 500 Francs CFA 500 XAF = EUR 0.76 |
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| Obverse lettering | 130 ANNIVERSARY OF MAO ZEDONG REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN PAIX TRAVAIL PATRIE PEACE WORK FATHERLAND 1893 2023 REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN 500 FRANCS CFA 2023 Ag 999 5g |
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| Reverse script | Chinese |
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Cameroon has become one of the most prolific issuers of novelty bullion in the world, with its mint authorization effectively outsourced to European private minting houses — primarily in Poland and Germany — that produce these pieces for the collector market with no meaningful connection to the issuing nation. This coin is, functionally, a privately conceived product sold under Cameroonian legal tender authority for licensing convenience.
Mao Zedong died in 1976. No Cameroonian monetary or diplomatic rationale links this issue to him.