Burkina Faso 100 francs 2018 Exonumia?

Hi,

Please can anyone explain why this coin (Token?) is listed as Exonumia whilst the rest of the Burkina Faso coins are shown as coins under this country? Surely they are either all coins or all Exonumia?

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces103384.html

Thanks
Stewart

Hi,

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

I am so close to 250 Countries and this would help :-)

Thanks
Stewart

Hi,

in my opinion they are ALL fantasy issues, Burkina Faso is using the BEAC francs as circulating currency

I've just had a private discussion with coin-man (referee for BF) about this, so we'll have to wait for his decision.

Ole

Thanks... I think😁

Still on 247 then 😳

Cita: "Stewartdiver"

​Still 20 more than I but that's not a problem, I have 371 issuers! Anyway I'm not hunting any numbers....

I once read that previous coins for Burkina Faso were privately minted without consent of the government of BF. Most likely they were not aware or didn't care about anybody creating coins with Burkina Faso on them.
In more recent years however, the government of BF had issued (sold) certain rights to strike coins specifically with BF as issuer on them. I think a german company bought these rights and only those coins are sort of legale tender in BF.
The term legal tender is probably not correct because they use the BEAC Franc as mentioned... But you get the general idea... now that the government can sell these 'rights', they also acknowledge or at least give some legal framework for those coins.

I just did a search for 'burkina faso 2017' and that brings up a list of several coins that were 'officially' minted, apparently by a company 'MCI Mint'.

Just to clarify: I did this search here on Numista! Not on Google.

THEN went to google and found this one:
https://en.numista.com/forum/topic64841.html

I will just formally close this thread. Burkina Faso is still unaswered by their government, and until they do so, we won't know.

At the risk of reviving an older thread, I was able to track down some photos of the original packaging from an Estonian website:







I don't believe that this is exactly conclusive evidence, but it's at least something.