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1000 Francs Stonehenge
| Issuer | Chad |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of an African woman facing slightly left, her hair elaborately styled in tightly coiled braids and adorned with beaded ornaments, occupying the central field. A faint scenic motif is visible in the right background field. The legend REPUBLIQUE DU TCHAD arcs along the upper periphery, while the motto UNITE·TRAVAIL·PROGRES· curves along the inner left. The denomination 1000 FRANCS appears in bold lettering along the lower border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Chad's 1999 commemorative program was part of a broader wave of African CFA franc-zone issues produced specifically for the collector export market — coins that were legal tender in name but never intended to circulate domestically. The Stonehenge subject places this squarely in a genre of world-wonder themed silver issues popular with European distributors throughout the late 1990s.
Schön 16 confirms the attribution, though production records for these issues are notoriously opaque, with actual mintages often controlled by the contracted European minting houses rather than the nominal issuing authority in N'Djamena.