1000 Francs CFA Smilodon

Burkina Faso has no historical or cultural connection to Smilodon — the genus inhabited the Americas and went extinct roughly 10,000 years ago, nowhere near West Africa. This is a bullion-adjacent collector issue produced under license, a category Burkina Faso has leaned on heavily since the early 2000s to generate seigniorage revenue through foreign coin marketing firms, primarily targeting European and North American collectors rather than domestic circulation.