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500 Francs The Night Watch
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Weight | 20 g |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a rectangular format with a dark, gradient field. The country name legend REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN is inscribed along the upper edge and right side, with CAMEROUN oriented vertically along the right margin. The date 2019 appears prominently in the upper right area of the field, while the denomination 500 FRANCS CFA is boldly struck in the lower left. The fineness notation Ag 999 appears in the upper left, indicating the .999 fine silver composition beneath the gold plating. |
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| Mintage | 2019 - Proof - 300 |
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Cameroon's commemorative output in recent decades has been dominated by a handful of European distributors — most notably the Pobjoy Mint and various Dutch and Belgian intermediaries — issuing coins that have little to do with Cameroonian monetary history and everything to do with the global collector market for high-concept silver rounds dressed in national authority. This piece follows that pattern precisely.
Rembrandt completed the painting now universally known as The Night Watch in 1642, the same year his wife Saskia died. Its original home was the Amsterdam civic guard headquarters; it was later transferred to the Rijksmuseum, where it was slashed by a knife-wielding visitor in 1975 and acid-attacked in 1990.