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The reverse presents a vivid full-colour depiction of two Stegosaurus dinosaurs in a lush Jurassic landscape, dominated by a large close-up portrait of the animal's head and dorsal plates in the upper field, rendered in naturalistic brown and red tones, with a smaller full-body specimen shown in the middle ground amid prehistoric vegetation and water. The legend PREHISTORIC LIFE arcs along the upper border, while the species name STEGOSAURUS and its temporal range 157-148 MIO YEARS BC are inscribed in the upper field. The issue year 2023 appears in the left field. Three geological epochs with their respective date ranges — TRIASSIC 250-200 MIO. YEARS BC, JURASSIC 200-145 MIO. YEARS BC, and CRETACEOUS 145-66 MIO. YEARS BC — are inscribed along the left, lower, and right borders respectively, providing a paleontological timeline context. |
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has become one of the most prolific issuers of novelty bullion coinage in the world, contracting European minting houses — primarily Münze Österreich and B.H. Mayer — to produce collector-targeted issues that have no meaningful domestic circulation. This piece is part of that commercial program, sold almost exclusively through international dealers and telecom-era collector markets with no practical monetary function in Kinshasa.
Stegosaurus itself went extinct roughly 155 million years ago during the Late Jurassic and has no paleontological connection to the Congo Basin — the choice is purely commercial.