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5000 Francs Tea Horse Road
| Issuer | Republic of Cameroon |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Weight | 153.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, after the fourth portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, occupies the central field. The Queen is depicted wearing the George IV State Diadem, rendered in fine relief with intricate detail. A beaded inner border frames the design, with the legend ELIZABETH II and 5.000 FRANCS CFA arcing across the upper field, and REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON along the lower periphery. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the portrait truncation. The Cameroon national coat of arms is struck in the lower field between the words of the issuer legend. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Tea Horse Road — known in Chinese as the Chamadao — was the network of mountain trading paths connecting Yunnan and Sichuan provinces to Tibet, active for over a millennium. Compressed tea bricks were the primary commodity heading west; horses, critical to Chinese military capacity, moved east in return. The trade sustained entire regional economies and shaped Tibetan material culture more durably than any political arrangement managed to.
Cameroon's involvement is purely fiduciary — the republic has issued dozens of large-format silver pieces under licensing arrangements, with the coins designed and marketed entirely by European distributors targeting collector markets.