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20 Francs Parasaurolophus, colorized
| Issuer | Banque Centrale du Congo |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 20 Francs |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a richly colorized prehistoric scene depicting a group of Parasaurolophus dinosaurs — large hadrosaurids distinguished by their prominent backward-sweeping cranial crests — in a lush Cretaceous landscape with ferns, trees, and a body of water in the background. A pack of smaller theropod dinosaurs appears at lower right, confronting the hadrosaurs in a dynamic composition. The inscription PREHISTORIC LIFE arcs along the upper border of the inner circle, with PARASAUROLOPHUS and the date range 76-72 MIO YEARS BC inscribed in the upper field. The year 2022 is struck at center above the main figures. The surrounding border bears the geological period timeline inscriptions TRIASSIC 250-200 MIO. YEARS BC, JURASSIC 200-145 MIO. YEARS BC, and CRETACEOUS 145-66 MIO. YEARS BC arranged around the periphery. |
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| Mintage | 2022 - - 2,000 |
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has operated one of the more prolific novelty bullion programs in modern numismatics, licensing its sovereign coinage authority to European trading companies — primarily Coin Invest Trust and B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt — who design, mint, and distribute the pieces with minimal involvement from Kinshasa beyond the legal imprimatur. The KM#372.1 suffix indicates a sub-variety within a broader Parasaurolophus release, almost certainly distinguished by colorization treatment applied after striking.
Parasaurolophus itself lived across what is now North America, not Africa — the geographic disconnect is irrelevant to the issuer, whose dinosaur series targets European and Asian collector markets exclusively.