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6000 Francs CFA United Nations
| Issuer | Benin (1975-date) |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | A scene depicting the stilt village of Ganvié on Lake Nokoué forms the principal design: a standing figure poles a pirogue through water in the central field, accompanied by two children seated in the boat, while a traditional thatched stilt house is rendered in detail to the right. In the lower field, the UN 50th anniversary commemorative logo — comprising the United Nations emblem alongside a stylised numeral 50 — appears at centre-right, flanked by the place name GANVIE below the boat and the dual dates 1945 - 1995 along the bottom exergue. The legend NATIONS UNIES POUR LA PAIX arcs along the upper periphery. |
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| Reverse lettering | NATIONS UNIES POUR LA PAIX GANVIÉ 50 1945 - 1995 |
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Benin's 1995 commemorative issues were produced under contract by the Monnaie de Paris and distributed almost exclusively through the European numismatic trade — they were never intended for domestic circulation and few ever reached West African soil. The country had adopted the CFA franc through its membership in the West African Economic and Monetary Union, meaning Cotonou had no independent minting infrastructure and no pressing need for high-denomination silver pieces valued at 6,000 francs in a country where per capita income barely exceeded that figure annually.
The UN tie-in places this coin among dozens of similar issues from small francophone states in the 1990s, a period when several nations with nominal monetary authority but no minting capacity licensed their names to European producers for the collector market.