5 Francs Denmark - Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik

This is one of several Congolese issues from the late 1990s struck under licensing arrangements that placed foreign heads of state on coins of the Democratic Republic of Congo — a country that had just emerged from the Mobutu era and was in the early, turbulent months of Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government. The practical minting infrastructure to produce such pieces domestically did not exist; these were almost certainly struck by a European contractor.

Denmark's royal couple had no political or historical connection to the Congo.