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5000 Francs CFA St Panteleimon
| Issuer | Republic of Chad |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Diameter | 38.61 mm |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
| Reverse lettering | ВЕЛИКОМУЧЕНИК И ЦЕЛИТЕЛЬ ПАНТЕЛЕИМОН |
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Chad has no meaningful connection to Saint Panteleimon, a fourth-century Anatolian physician-martyr venerated primarily in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. This coin belongs to a well-documented category of CFA-denomination issues produced for the collector market by European minting contractors — the issuing nation provides legal tender status in name only, while the pieces are designed, struck, and distributed entirely for export sale. The BEAC, which governs the CFA franc zone, has periodically raised objections to this practice.
The local gilding applied over .999 silver was added post-strike, a finishing step common to this contractor-driven series.