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5 Francs Belgium - Queen Marie Henriette
| Uitgever | Banque Centrale du Congo |
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| Jaar | 1999 |
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| Vorm | Round |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Latin |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Polychrome portrait bust of Queen Maria-Hendrika of Belgium in left-facing profile, rendered in multicolor enamel within a raised inner circle. To the left of the effigy appears a colored royal crown, and to the right a colored Belgian lion shield. The legend LA REINE DES BELGES arcs above the portrait within the inner circle, with the name MARIA-HENDRIKA and her regnal dates 1836-1902 inscribed below. The wide outer border carries the series legend MAISONS ROYALES D'EUROPE DES SIECLES DERNIERS. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
This piece was issued by the Banque Centrale du Congo — not by Belgium — making the choice of a Belgian queen consort as subject a deliberate nod to the colonial relationship that defined the Congo's pre-independence monetary history. Marie Henriette died in 1902, nearly six decades before Congolese independence.
The 1999 date places this squarely in the era when the DRC's central bank was issuing numerous collector-targeted commemoratives under Kabila's transitional government, often drawing on European royal imagery with little direct connection to Congolese civic life.