Six Years Later: ANOTHER West African States Beauty - Gold 1982 WAS 5000 CFA Francs
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Well, I couldn't leave well enough alone and recently this coin came up in a Heritage auction:
Had to have it even though I have another specimen that I got at Stacksbowers 6 years ago, and have the large format version in gold of the silver 5000 CFA that has about 3.5x as much gold and larger. Interestingly this coin is not prooflike but of course is graded the same ATS. I had the larger gold essai graded by our hosts as I had it raw. Methinks they were a bit mean with the MS66 grade in this case.
I just like the design and have a number of the silver 1972 500 CFA francs and the 1982 5000 CFA francs in ordinary and "essai" version.
The gold are quite rare and simply beautiful IMHO.
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Congrats... seems there is somewhat of a mystery surrounding moderns such as this. I would think there would some type of records for mintages/sales and what may have been melted.
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Fantastic coin. I assume it's a commemorative to celebrate 20 years of monetary union among the six countries?
Yes, I wonder what happened with the mintages, numbers released, numbers melted, etc. Interestingly, the coin was not struck in proof and was purportedly a currency issue - although the value in bullion was about 376.00 USD. Even the silver 5000 CFA of that year had a bullion value above face - 7.92 USD.
Yes, it was a 20th anniversary coin commem.
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