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1000 Francs CFA Nymphenburg Palace
| Issuer | Republic of the Congo |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#114 |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DU CONGO 1000 FRANCS (Translation: Republic of Congo) |
| Reverse description | Panoramic view of Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Germany, depicted with the central corps de logis and flanking wings visible in the middle ground, with a prominent sculptural monument or statue on a tall pedestal in the left foreground and trees framing the composition on both sides. The legend NYMPHENBURG curves along the upper periphery in incuse or raised lettering, and the date 2002 appears in the lower field. The architectural rendering is detailed and faithful to the Baroque palace complex. |
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The Republic of the Congo has no historical or geographic connection to Nymphenburg Palace, a Bavarian royal residence completed in stages between 1664 and the early 18th century under the Wittelsbachs. This coin belongs to the foreign collector market issues that proliferated across small-population African states in the late 1990s and early 2000s, where the issuing authority lent its name to a product conceived, designed, and distributed almost entirely by European numismatic marketing firms — the Congo collecting licensing fees, the firms collecting the profits.