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5000 Francs CFA 20th Olympiad - Munich
| Issuer | Banque des États de l'Afrique Équatoriale et du Cameroun |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing bare-headed portrait bust of President Jean-Bédel Bokassa occupying the central field, rendered in high relief with fine surface detail. The legend REPUBLIQUE CENTRAFRICAINE and 10e ANNIVERSAIRE DE L'INDEPENDANCE curves around the upper portion of the coin, with the dates 1960 and 1970 flanking the portrait at mid-field. The name JEAN BEDEL BOKASSA appears beneath the bust, with the national motto UNITE TRAVAIL DIGNITE arranged in three parts around the lower field. Decorative motifs resembling stylized hand prints are distributed along both sides of the field. |
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| Mintage | 1970 - With privy mark, Proof - 4,000 1970 - Without privy mark, Proof - |
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Issued two years before the Munich Games opened, this piece was struck under the authority of the Banque des États de l'Afrique Équatoriale et du Cameroun — a supranational central bank serving Chad, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, and Cameroon — at a moment when the institution was already in its final years before dissolution into the Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale in 1972. Olympic gold issues of this period were common fundraising instruments for developing-nation mints with limited domestic coin programs.
The Munich Games themselves were overshadowed by the September 1972 massacre of eleven Israeli athletes by the Black September organization — an event that occurred after this coin had already been in circulation for two years.