Front: 9th Coat of arms (2006-) inside fork-shaped design
below (part state name) OF / CONGO
legend: (top, part state name) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
(bottom-left, year, left) 2007 (bottom-right, value) 10 FRANC (without -S)
Back: Colored painting of Madonna holding the Christ Child,
between (right) Saint Sixtus and (left) Saint Barbara
(bottom) two distinctive winged cherubs
"Madonna di San Sisto" (translated: Sistine Madonna)
commissioned in 1512 by Pope Julius II for the church of San Sisto, Piacenza
painted (1512, oil on canvas) by Italian artist Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
(1483-1520), inside a decorated frame
located at: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany
after WWII it had been relocated to Moscow for a decade
Relocated to Dresden from 1754
overall: 196 x 265 cm
legend: none
Diameter: 35x46 mm
