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100 Francs Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Pattern
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République Démocratique du Congo |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 100 Francs |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO *** 1999 *** (Translation: Central bank Democratic Republic of the Congo) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Stanley patterns from the DRC's 1999 series were produced as proposed collector issues, never adopted for circulation — the country was mid-conflict, with Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government barely two years into power following the collapse of Mobutu's Zaïre. The Banque Centrale had more pressing concerns than commemorative coinage.
Stanley himself died in 1904 a British subject, having renounced his American citizenship — a biographical irony given that his Congo explorations were conducted under commission from Leopold II, whose regime over the same territory became one of the colonial era's most documented atrocities.