Young Woman with Ibis Edgar Degas Art Gallery 1 Oz 1000 CFA Francs Silver Coin Cameroon 2027

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Young Woman with Ibis Edgar Degas Art Gallery 1 Oz 1000 CFA Francs Silver Coin Cameroon 2027

This coin from the MINT XXI Art Gallery series features Edgar Degas's Young Woman with Ibis – an early, lesser-known work by the master best known for his ballet dancers and scenes of Parisian life.

Developed from studies made during the artist's stay in Rome in 1857–58 and reworked around 1860–62, it shows a woman wrapped in deep blue on a balcony, flanked by two scarlet ibises, with an imagined eastern city beyond. Her quiet absorption meets the theatrical colour of the birds, creating an atmosphere of mystery. The painting belongs to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The coin is a rectangular 74 × 51.8 mm plate struck from 1 oz of .999 fine silver in proof quality. Full-colour digital printing faithfully renders the colours and details of the original canvas, while the obverse bears the name of the Republic of Cameroon and the face value of 1000 CFA francs.

The mintage is limited to 1,000 pieces worldwide. Each coin comes in a box with an acrylic display and a certificate of authenticity – it can stand like a small painting, which also makes it a great gift for art lovers.

It is another coin from the Art Gallery collection, in which MINT XXI captures masterpieces of painting in silver – alongside Klimt's The Kiss, Botticelli's Primavera and van Gogh's The Starry Night, among others.