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1500 Francs CFA Diogo Cão
| Issuer | Republic of the Congo |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Thickness | 0.5 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DU CONGO 1500 FRANCS CFA (Translation: Republic of Congo) |
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Diogo Cão was the Portuguese navigator who, in the early 1480s, became the first European to reach the mouth of the Congo River, erecting stone padrões — marked pillars claiming the territory for the Portuguese Crown — at several points along the coast. The Congo issuer has produced a number of small-format gold pieces commemorating exploration figures with tenuous geographic connection, this being one. At 1.24 grams, it belongs to the 1/25 oz class that proliferated among African franc-zone states in the 2000s primarily as collector fodder rather than circulating coinage.