1000 Francs CFA Nymphenburg Palace

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.