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5 Francs United Kingdom - King George V
| Issuer | Banque Centrale du Congo |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Weight | 24.3 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE 19 99 DU CONGO 5 FRANCS |
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The Democratic Republic of Congo issued this piece in 1999 under the name "Banque Centrale du Congo" — a designation the institution had only just reclaimed after decades as the Banque du Zaïre, following Mobutu's fall in 1997 and Laurent-Désiré Kabila's renaming of the country itself. The George V denomination belongs to a broader series of foreign monarch tributes struck for the collector market rather than domestic circulation, a revenue strategy common among central African states during the late 1990s when hard currency was scarce and seigniorage from novelty issues offered a practical alternative.