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10 Francs Famous Paintings - 'Café Terrace at Night'
| Issuer | Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997-date) |
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| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is depicted centrally within a stylized shield-shaped cartouche surmounted by a crescent arc. The arms feature a facing leopard's head flanked by an elephant tusk to the left and a spear to the right, with three scrolled ribbons bearing the national motto JUSTICE, PAIX, and TRAVAIL. The country name DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO appears as a three-line legend across the upper field, while the date 2007 is inscribed at the lower left and the denomination 10 FRANC at the lower right, all set against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Obverse lettering | DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO JUSTICE PAIX TRAVAIL 2007 10 FRANC |
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Congo's "Famous Paintings" series, produced for the collectibles market in the mid-2000s, was minted almost entirely for export — none of these pieces entered domestic circulation in any meaningful quantity. The DRC's own monetary infrastructure at the time made mass coin circulation largely theoretical outside Kinshasa.
Van Gogh completed "Café Terrace at Night" in Arles in September 1888, making it one of the first paintings in which he used a starry night sky as a central compositional element — a motif he would return to obsessively. The original hangs in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.