10 Francs 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, France

The 1924 Paris Games are best remembered numismatically for France's own commemorative issues of that year, making the DRC's 2003 retrospective an odd piece of collector-market product with no organic connection to the event. The Congo had no existence as a sovereign state in 1924 — it was the Belgian Congo, a colonial territory under Leopold II's successors.

These late retrospective Olympic issues, produced in bulk by European minting contractors for small nations with nominal issuing authority, were never intended for circulation.