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100 Francs CFA Protoplanetary Meteorite
| Issuer | Republic of the Congo |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DU CONGO 100 FRANCS CFA (Translation: Republic of Congo) |
| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a large textured protoplanetary body occupying the left and lower portions of the field, its surface rendered with a distinctive cracked, regmaglypted texture suggestive of a meteorite's fusion crust. A small inset meteorite fragment appears in the right field. The curved legend PROTOPLANETARY METEORITE arcs around the upper and right periphery, with the date 2018 and the purity and weight inscription 0.5 G .999 FINE GOLD positioned in the upper central field. |
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The Republic of the Congo has issued a long-running series of miniature gold coins embedding actual meteorite fragments, marketed heavily to the thematic collector market. Whether the included material in any given piece is verifiably protoplanetary rather than simply chondritic is a distinction the issuing authority rarely clarifies with supporting documentation.