5 Francs Parrot

The Democratic Republic of the Congo's novelty coinage program of the late 1990s and early 2000s emerged almost entirely for the collector market, produced while the country was mid-way through the Second Congo War — a conflict that would eventually involve nine nations and kill an estimated five million people. Circulating coinage was the least of anyone's concerns.

KM#39 was never meaningfully distributed domestically.