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500 Francs CFA FIFA World Cup 1994
| Issuer | Republic of the Congo |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Thickness | 2 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a dynamic figure of a football goalkeeper in full stretch, arms raised above the head to intercept a football, rendered in high relief. To the right stands the Statue of Liberty, serving as a symbolic reference to the host nation. The date 1992 appears vertically along the left inner border. The legend ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE curves along the upper periphery, while the inscription XVe COUPE MONDIALE and the year 1994 are displayed prominently in the lower central field. |
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The Republic of the Congo — not to be confused with the neighboring Democratic Republic — issued this piece two years ahead of the tournament under the kind of licensing arrangement that flooded the collector market throughout the early 1990s. FIFA's aggressive commercialization of World Cup branding during that period produced a wave of issues from African franc-zone nations with little connection to the sport, most struck by European private mints on behalf of the issuing government.
Coin World and contemporary numismatic press flagged dozens of these issues as non-circulating legal tender produced purely for export sale.