5 Francs United Kingdom - Prince Charles and Princess Diana

Issued by the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1999 — the same year the country had formally reverted to that name after decades as Zaire — this piece belongs to a wave of foreign-themed commemoratives produced almost entirely for the collector export market rather than domestic circulation. Congo issued dozens of such pieces through the late 1990s and early 2000s, licensing celebrity and royal imagery to generate hard currency revenue during a period of severe economic collapse and ongoing civil war.

Diana had died two years before this coin was struck.