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5 Francs World Football Championship 2006
| Issuer | Banque Centrale du Congo |
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| Year | 2001 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a stylised football panel design occupying the field, upon which is superimposed a coloured map outline of Germany rendered in the national tricolour of black, red, and gold applied by enamel technique. The legend GERMANY appears in bold relief above the coloured motif, with the year 2006 immediately below it. The denomination 5 FRANCS is inscribed along the lower rim within the football panel design. |
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The Democratic Republic of Congo issued a wave of commemorative 5-franc pieces in the early 2000s under licensing arrangements that had little to do with the issuing country and everything to do with the international novelty coin trade. This piece, struck five years before the tournament it commemorates, was produced for collector distribution rather than circulation — the DRC's actual monetary economy ran almost entirely on US dollars following the hyperinflationary collapse of the Congolese franc in the late 1990s.
KM# 102.1 distinguishes this from at least one variant in the series, suggesting a design or production change mid-run.