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100 Francs CFA Congo Peafowl
| Issuer | Republic of the Congo |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse lettering | Paon du Congo PROTECTION DE LA NATURE 1992 (Translation: Congo Peafowl Protection of Nature) |
| Edge | Smooth |
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The Congo Peafowl (*Afropavo congensis*) wasn't confirmed to science until 1936, when James Chapin identified museum specimens that had been misidentified for decades as juvenile feathers of another species. Endemic to the dense rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo — not the issuing Republic of the Congo — its appearance on this coin reflects a broader regional wildlife series rather than a species with particular national significance to Brazzaville.