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Pertaining to the second-to-latest post, BURKINA FASO is not the only country to issue a meteorite-themed silver coin in 2016 with the same 1000 Francs CFA denomination! While Burkina Faso's coin commemorates the meteorite of Château-Renard in FRANCE, neighboring NIGER's coin displays a pictorial scene closer to home. This coin shows the Mount Tazerzait meteorite zipping through the sky on Wednesday, August 21st, 1991 near Tahoua, Niger. With a population currently at about 125,000, Tahoua is a city located about 230 miles and 370 kilometers east of Niamey (Niger's capital) and at the southern fringe of the Sahara Desert. Mt. Tazerzait boasted a total weight of approximately 100 kilograms and 220.5 lbs before its discoverers hammered the humongous meteorite into smaller fragments.
Original coin images (before editing) come from First Coin Company (↗). This coin was minted by the MCI Mint (↗) of Kabelsketal, GERMANY.
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