100 Francs CFA Ernesto Che Guevara, Glass Mosaic and Steel

The Republic of the Congo has no meaningful historical connection to Che Guevara beyond his brief, failed guerrilla campaign in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1965 — a mission he later described in his own diaries as a complete disaster. The coin is a modern bullion-adjacent novelty issue, produced under licensing arrangements that allow small African nations to monetize their minting authority for the collector market without the pieces ever circulating domestically.