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.
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.