100 Francs CFA Brachiosaurus

The Republic of the Congo issued a short run of brass dinosaur coins in 1993 as part of a broader wave of African novelty issues aimed squarely at the thematic collector market — not circulation. Brachiosaurus, one of the heaviest land animals in the fossil record, had received renewed popular attention following significant specimen discoveries in Tanzania and Colorado in the preceding decades.

KM#33 is rarely encountered in anything below mint state, confirming it never saw a cash register.