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5000 Francs CFA Mandala Lion
| Issuer | Bank of Central African States (BEAC) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (Bank of Central African States, 1973-date) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | 5000 Francs CFA 999 999 FINE SILVER 1 TROY OUNCE |
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The Bank of Central African States issues commemorative coinage on behalf of its six member nations — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon — though these pieces are produced exclusively for the collector market and have never entered general circulation in the CFA franc zone. Production is typically contracted to European private mints, with the issuing authority functioning largely as a licensing body rather than an active minting operation.
KM#57 belongs to a wave of mandala-format issues that flooded the numismatic market in the mid-to-late 2010s, when several African monetary authorities signed agreements with third-party distributors to monetize their issuing rights.