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5000 Francs De Havilland D.H. 98
| Issuer | Burundi |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 5000 Francs |
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| Obverse description | At the center of the obverse, a stylized lion head is depicted, with the national motto of Burundi inscribed beneath it in Latin. A semicircular legend along the upper periphery reads REPUBLIC OF BURUNDI and the year 2015, while the lower portion of the field bears the denomination 5000 Francs and the metallic specifications 20g 999 Silver. A reeded border frames the design. The composition is clean and heraldic in character, consistent with modern commemorative coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The de Havilland Mosquito — the aircraft this coin commemorates — was built primarily from birch plywood and balsa, a choice driven by wartime aluminum shortages in Britain rather than any experimental ambition. German radar operators initially dismissed it as a non-threat. By 1944, the Pathfinder Force was using it to mark targets at speeds that made interception nearly impossible.
Burundi's aviation commemorative series of the mid-2010s was produced for the collector market with no meaningful domestic circulation. KM#40 is one of several foreign-subject issues from this period contracted through European minting intermediaries.