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5000 Francs De Havilland D.H. 98
| Issuer | Burundi |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF BURUNDI 2015 UNITÉ ~ TRAVAIL ~ PROGRÈS ~5000 Francs ~ 20g 999 Silver ~ (Translation: REPUBLIC OF BURUNDI 2015 UNITY ~ WORK ~ PROGRESS ~5000 Francs ~ 20g 999 Silver ~) |
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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.