Catalog
100 Francs CFA Spanish Galleon
| Issuer | Republic of the Congo |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | NAVIRE ANCIEN 1991 (Translation: Old Ship) |
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The Republic of the Congo issued this piece as part of a wave of novelty copper coinage that flooded out of central African mints in the late 1980s and early 1990s — a revenue strategy driven less by monetary need than by the foreign collector market. Brazzaville had no particular connection to Spanish colonial shipping.
KM#30 turns up frequently in bulk lots, suggesting substantial mintage with minimal domestic circulation.