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5000 Francs Spice Route
| Issuer | Cameroon (1960-date) |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | • HISTORIC TRADE ROUTES • • SPICE ROUTE • Maluku (Spice) Islands Cape of Good Hope Lisbon 2019 |
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The "Spice Route" series, issued under the Central Bank of Central African States (BEAC) on behalf of Cameroon, belongs to a wave of large-format silver collector pieces that BEAC began authorizing in the 2010s primarily for the European numismatic market. These coins have no practical circulation history — struck in limited quantities by European minting contractors, they are fiscal instruments in name only, their face values bearing no relationship to purchasing power in Cameroon itself.
KM#224 is one of several thematic entries in this series, each tied to historical trade networks. The spice trade it references connected sub-Saharan Africa to Arab, Indian, and eventually Portuguese commercial networks from roughly the 9th century onward.