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20 Francs Megalodon
| Issuer | Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997-date) |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Coat of Arms of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The national legend arcs around the upper portion of the coin reading REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO, with the national motto JUSTICE PAIX TRAVAIL distributed along the lower arc. The denomination 20 FRANCS appears within the legend, all rendered in Latin script against a plain field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has operated an aggressive commemorative bullion program since the early 2000s, licensing its sovereign issuing authority to European minting houses — primarily the Bavarian State Mint and B.H. Mayer's — to produce collector coins that have no meaningful circulation in Kinshasa. The "Megalodon" issue is part of a prehistoric shark series aimed squarely at the international thematic collector market.
Otodus megalodon went extinct roughly 3.6 million years ago. No confirmed complete skeleton has ever been recovered — the cartilaginous skeleton rarely fossilizes — leaving tooth morphology as the primary basis for size estimates.