10 Francs Pope John Paul II

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has issued commemorative silver under its own authority since the country's renaming in 1997, though the pieces are produced entirely for the international collector market — no meaningful circulation in-country ever occurs. This John Paul II issue appeared in 2005, the year of his death in April, placing it among a flood of memorial coinage produced by dozens of issuing authorities that year, most with no organic connection to the subject.

Karol Wojtyła never visited the DRC.