5000 Francs CFA Campo del Cielo Meteorite

Campo del Cielo — "Field of Heaven" in Spanish — is an iron meteorite field in Argentina's Gran Chaco region, where indigenous populations had already been extracting metal from the craters for tools before Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1576 and reported the site. The meteorites themselves fell roughly 4,000 to 5,000 years ago and are classified as an IAB-MG iron, among the most chemically stable extraterrestrial materials known.

Chad has no geographic or historical connection to the find site. This is a bullion-adjacent novelty issue sold into the collector market — the meteorite fragment embedded in the coin is genuine Campo del Cielo material, which is commercially abundant enough to be sourced cheaply.