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500 Francs Owls pendant
| Issuer | Bank of Central African States (BEAC) |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 500 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Two owls (Strigiformes sp.) depicted perched on a tree branch, rendered in detailed relief at centre. A heart-shaped motif incorporating a green crystal insert is placed at the centre between the two birds, serving as the decorative focal point of the design. The reverse field is otherwise unlettered save for the incuse inscription 'hug me' below the central motif. Two pierced suspension holes are positioned in the upper portion of the flan, mirroring the obverse, to facilitate wear as a pendant coin. |
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The Bank of Central African States issues coinage on behalf of six member nations — Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon — a monetary union whose roots trace to the CFA franc zone established under French colonial administration in 1945. This piece carries no single country attribution, which is itself a political statement about the bloc's shared currency architecture.
The crystal insert places this firmly in the modern numismatic bullion-adjacent collector market, a format BEAC has leaned into heavily since the 2010s to generate premium revenue beyond circulation coinage.