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6000 Francs CFA Elephant
| Issuer | Benin (1975-date) |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Benin occupies the central field, featuring a quartered shield displaying a castle, a star, a palm tree, and a sailing ship, surmounted by a buffalo head above and flanked by two leopards as supporters. A scroll below bears the national motto FRATERNITE JUSTICE TRAVAIL. The circular legend REPUBLIQUE DU BENIN runs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 6 000 FRANCS CFA is inscribed in the lower field beneath the coat of arms. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Benin's CFA franc issues of the early 1990s were produced almost entirely for the collector export market — the country had no meaningful domestic numismatic infrastructure and contracted European mints to strike pieces that would never see a West African pocket. The 6000 francs denomination itself has no relationship to the CFA's actual monetary scale; it was engineered purely as a face-value vehicle for a silver bullion-adjacent product, priced for foreign buyers.
Benin joined the West African Economic and Monetary Union's franc zone at independence in 1960 and has issued its own collector coinage sporadically since the mid-1970s under arrangements that leave physical production entirely outside the country.