BOLD is excited to bring you this beautifully detailed and meticulously minted design featuring the rusalkas, demonic creatures that inhabited forests, fields, and bodies of water in Slavic myth.
From the mint:
"They were imagined as beautiful, naked girls with long, loose hair. They laughed loudly and sang. They appeared during the new moon and attracted young men to them. If anyone approached them, the hair of the mermaids turned green and their faces twisted. The rusalkas would kill lured people who touched them. It was believed that maidens who died before they could get married became rusalkas."
The obverse features the Coat of Arms of Cameroun surrounded by aquatic plants and flowers. A Slavic symbol is at the top. The inscriptions are "REPUBLIQUE DU Cameroun," and "1000 FRANCS CFA.".
The coin's reverse features a rusalka with long, flowing hair, emerging from the water. Her serpentine tail is on the right. The scene is accentuated with aquatic plants. Inscriptions are "RUSALKA . SLAVIC BESTIARY."
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