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10 Francs Famous Paintings - 'The Swing'
| Issuer | Banque Centrale du Congo |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Weight | 30.33 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A full-color reproduction of Jean-Honoré Fragonard's celebrated Rococo masterpiece 'The Swing' (1767) occupies the central field of the reverse, rendered in vivid polychrome enamel. The composition depicts a young woman in a billowing pink silk dress soaring on a rope swing amid a lush, verdant garden setting, with two male admirers positioned at the left and lower right of the scene. The image is framed by an ornate raised decorative border with scrollwork and foliate motifs in relief, executed in the silver-plated finish of the coin, evoking the gilded frame of the original oil painting. |
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has issued commemorative coinage under the "Banque Centrale du Congo" name since the country's 2003 transitional government, producing a steady stream of silver-plated copper pieces aimed squarely at the thematic collector market rather than domestic circulation. This series reproducing famous paintings is typical of that output — licensed imagery pressed onto base metal at a price point that undercuts genuine silver issues.
Fragonard's original canvas was commissioned in 1767 by a French courtier, reportedly Baron de Saint-Julien, who wanted himself depicted in a specific voyeuristic arrangement relative to a young woman on a swing. The painting now hangs in the Wallace Collection, London.