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1000 Francs CFA 2000 Summer Olympic Games
| Issuer | Republic of the Congo |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 1000 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse description | A seated female allegorical figure, dressed in traditional robes and headwrap, is depicted in three-quarter view facing right, holding and gesturing toward a large stone tablet inscribed with the national motto UNITE / TRAVAIL / PROGRES. The figure occupies the central field, rendered in a stylized engraved manner. The circular legend REPUBLIQUE DU CONGO arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 1000 FRANCS is inscribed along the lower periphery. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DU CONGO 1000 FRANCS UNITE TRAVAIL PROGRES |
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The Republic of the Congo — not to be confused with the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo — issued a wave of commemorative silver in the late 1990s almost entirely for the collector export market. These pieces had no meaningful domestic circulation; the CFA franc zone's everyday coinage came through the BEAC, and the Congo's own commemorative program existed largely to generate foreign exchange through coin dealers and telemarketing operations targeting collectors abroad.
The Sydney 2000 games were a common subject across dozens of small nations running similar programs simultaneously, making this issue one of hundreds of broadly equivalent pieces from the same window.