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100 Francs Quetzal
| Issuer | Banque Centrale du Congo |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Value | 100 Francs |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Quetzal series issued under the Banque Centrale du Congo belongs to a class of wildlife-themed bullion and collector coinage that the DRC began producing aggressively in the early 2000s, largely as a foreign-currency revenue mechanism during a period of severe economic contraction following decades of kleptocratic mismanagement under Mobutu and the subsequent civil wars. The coins were never intended for domestic circulation — the country's own population transacted in heavily depreciated Congolese francs.
The Quetzal itself is native to Central America, not Central Africa, which points to the purely commercial logic behind the series.