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5000 Francs CFA Johann Sebastian Bach

Issuer Chad
Year 2023
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Technique Milled
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Obverse lettering 2023 REPUBLIQUE DU TCHAD Johann Sebastian Bach 5000 FRANCS CFA
(Translation: Republic of Chad)
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Reverse lettering B - A - C - H
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Chad's Central African CFA franc is administered by the BEAC, which issues currency on behalf of six member states — meaning commemorative programs like this one are authorized regionally, not unilaterally by N'Djamena. That makes large-format collector pieces bearing Chad's name essentially licensing arrangements, produced by private minting houses and sold directly into the numismatic market rather than circulating anywhere near central Africa.

Bach himself died in 1750 leaving his estate in disorder, with manuscripts scattered and much of his output unpublished. The bulk of his catalog survived largely because his son Carl Philipp Emanuel preserved the papers.

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