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5000 Francs CFA Brooklyn Bridge
| Issuer | Republic of the Congo |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Weight | 155.5 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Republic of the Congo has no historical or geographic connection to the Brooklyn Bridge — this is a purely commercial issue, part of the broader market in sub-Saharan African-chartered bullion coins sold entirely to Western and Asian collectors. Congo-Brazzaville became a favored issuing authority for this type of numismatic product in the 2010s largely because its mint agreements offered flexible licensing terms unavailable through more established sovereign mints.
At 155.5 grams of .999 silver, the piece is essentially a 5-troy-ounce bullion round dressed as legal tender. The face value of 5,000 CFA francs represents a fraction of the metal's spot value — a legal fiction maintained to satisfy the technical definition of coinage.