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10 Francs Livingstone
| Issuer | Banque Centrale du Congo |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Thickness | 2.8 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO 1999 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo issued this coin the year the country formally reclaimed that name — having spent over three decades as Zaire under Mobutu Sese Seko, who had renamed both the country and its currency as part of his authenticité campaign. The 1999 date places it squarely in the chaos following Laurent-Désiré Kabila's 1997 overthrow of Mobutu, with the First Congo War barely over and the Second already underway.
David Livingstone explored the Congo basin in the 1870s and died there in 1873, near Lake Bangweulu. A Congolese commemorative honoring a Scottish missionary-explorer is a distinctly colonial-era framing, minted almost certainly for the collector export market rather than domestic circulation.