500 Francs Summer Olympics

Rwanda's participation in the 2006 commemorative Olympic series is something of an anomaly — the country had no athletes competing at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, and its Summer Olympic history is thin, with its most notable modern appearance being the 2004 Athens Games. The coin was almost certainly produced for the collector market rather than any domestic circulation, a common arrangement in which small-nation central banks license their issuing authority to private minting houses, keeping the proceeds as straightforward revenue.