The Democratic Republic of the Congo has issued commemorative coinage under its own authority since the country's renaming in 1997, and its numismatic program has leaned heavily on wildlife and prehistoric themes to generate foreign collector revenue — the government derives essentially no domestic circulation benefit from these pieces. The triceratops, a ceratopsid from the Late Cretaceous of North America, has no particular connection to the Congo, a detail the issuing authority treats as entirely irrelevant.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has issued commemorative coinage under its own authority since the country's renaming in 1997, and its numismatic program has leaned heavily on wildlife and prehistoric themes to generate foreign collector revenue — the government derives essentially no domestic circulation benefit from these pieces. The triceratops, a ceratopsid from the Late Cretaceous of North America, has no particular connection to the Congo, a detail the issuing authority treats as entirely irrelevant.