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10 Francs CURTISS-Centenary of Aviation
| Issuer | Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997-date) |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of the Democratic Republic of the Congo occupies the central field, depicting a leopard head facing left flanked by two crossed spears, with a ribbon below bearing the motto JUSTICE PAIX TRAVAIL. The circular legend RÉPUBLIQUE DÉMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO runs along the upper periphery. The date 2008 is divided across the lower field with '20' to the left and '08' to the right of the arms, and the denomination 10 FRANCS appears in the exergue at the bottom. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Glenn Curtiss won the first Gordon Bennett Trophy race in 1909 and was awarded Scientific American's trophy for the first public fixed-wing flight exceeding one kilometer in the United States — achievements that placed him briefly ahead of the Wright brothers in the public imagination. The Congo's aviation centenary series, issued across multiple base-metal commemoratives with silver plating, was produced for the collector novelty market rather than circulation, a common revenue strategy among smaller issuing states in the 2000s.