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| Issuer | Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997-date) |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Weight | 20 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | DISCIPLINES OLYMPIQUES * GYMNASTIQUE 10 FRANCS |
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo relaunched its commemorative coinage program almost immediately after Laurent-Désiré Kabila's forces took Kinshasa in 1997 and renamed the country from Zaire. These issues were never intended for domestic circulation — the DRC's own population was transacting in Congolese francs of negligible silver content — but were produced entirely for the international collector market, typically through European minting intermediaries.
KM#53 is one of several thematic silver issues from the 2000 program, a year when the country was actively fighting the Second Congo War on its eastern front.