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1000 Francs CFA Okapi
| Issuer | Republic of the Congo |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 1000 Francs CFA |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Okapi Silver Ounce 2015 AFRICA 1oz Ag .999 |
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The okapi wasn't confirmed to Western science until 1901, when British explorer P.L. Sclater formally described the species from skins obtained in the Belgian Congo — an animal so unfamiliar that early reports were dismissed as local folklore about a forest zebra. The Republic of the Congo has no wild okapi population; the animal is native to the dense Ituri rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the east, making its appearance here a borrowed icon rather than a national one.