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250 Francs CFA Ice sailing

Issuer Senegal
Year 2019
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Value 250 Francs CFA
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Reverse lettering · AUF DEM WASSER · EISSEGELN · 2019 1/2 G .9999 FINEST GOLD
(Translation: On the water, ice sailing)
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Senegal joined a wave of small African CFA-zone nations issuing fractional gold pieces through European minting intermediaries — primarily the Mint of Poland and B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt — targeting collector markets with no relationship to domestic circulation. These pieces were never intended for use in Senegal and were not distributed through the BCEAO, the regional central bank that actually governs CFA franc issuance for the West African zone.

The ice sailing subject has no geographic or cultural connection to Senegal whatsoever.

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