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5 Francs Belgium - King Leopold II
| Uitgever | Banque Centrale du Congo |
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| Jaar | 1999 |
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| Waarde | 5 Francs |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Within the central inner circle, a highly detailed left-facing bust of a roaring lion is depicted in high relief against a polished field. An intermediate ring carries the legend REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO arching around the circumference of the inner circle. The broad outer border bears the issuing authority BANQUE CENTRALE arching across the top, flanked by five-pointed stars, with the date split 19 - 99 at the sides and the denomination 5 FRANCS displayed prominently at the base. |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Latin |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
This piece was issued by the Banque Centrale du Congo in 1999, a year when the country was already two years into the Second Congo War — the deadliest conflict on African soil since World War II. Producing commemorative coinage during active warfare requires either extraordinary optimism or a mint operating well outside the country's borders, and this issue was almost certainly struck abroad.
Naming the coin after Leopold II, whose personal rule of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908 resulted in mass atrocities estimated to have killed millions, makes the attribution historically charged in a way few modern circulation issues can match.