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5000 Francs CFA Panda
| Issuer | Chad |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts two giant pandas amid a richly detailed naturalistic landscape featuring bamboo groves, rocky terrain, and mountainous scenery rendered in fine sculptural relief. One panda is shown in a seated upright posture with one paw raised, while a second panda is visible in the background among the vegetation. The overall composition fills the panda-shaped contour of the coin, with the detailed scenic elements rendered in finely engraved low relief against a matte antique-finished field, evoking the style of traditional Chinese wildlife illustration. |
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| Mintage | 2024 - Antique Finish - 1,000 |
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Chad's entry into the Chinese Panda bullion tribute market follows a pattern established by several small African nations that struck licensing or design-sharing arrangements to produce silver issues aimed squarely at the Chinese collector market. The CFA franc zone countries — Chad among them — use the BEAC (Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale) as their common central bank, which makes unilateral coinage decisions by individual member states a complicated jurisdictional matter. These panda-themed issues typically originate through private minting agreements rather than sovereign monetary policy.
KM#389 places this among a growing run of Chad numismatic issues from the 2020s produced primarily for the secondary market.