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1000 Nouveaux Zaïres World Cup
| Issuer | Zaire (1971-1997) |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Weight | 31.47 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by a raised relief map of the African continent occupying most of the design. The national arms of Zaire, featuring a leopard head above crossed spear and torch with olive branches and a ribbon inscribed JUSTICE PAIX TRAVAIL, appears at lower left. The curved legend REPUBLIQUE DU ZAIRE arcs along the upper rim in Latin characters, while the date 1997 is inscribed below the arms at the base of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DU ZAIRE 1997 |
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Zaire's 1994 FIFA World Cup commemorative program was issued by a government already in terminal collapse. By 1997, the year this piece was struck, Mobutu Sese Seko had fled the country following Laurent-Désiré Kabila's advance across the country, and the state itself ceased to exist — renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo within months. Coins dated 1997 and denominated in Nouveaux Zaïres are among the final numismatic artifacts of a currency that had already been redenominated once in 1993 at a ratio of 1:3,000,000 against the original Zaïre.