Depicts an official emblem of the Laurent Kabila regime: a mature male lion standing to the left amid the grass, symbolizing strength and authority. Above the lion is the country’s name in French, and the denomination is placed below.

Kabila’s regime, which began in 1997 after he overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko, was characterized by efforts to rebuild the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) after decades of dictatorship. His government sought to restore national sovereignty, but faced internal conflict and external pressures, particularly during the Second Congo War.

Depicts a caravel moving through the water with a map of the location of Panama between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea and the canal zone below, the inscription of occasion below the ship.

The construction of the Panama Canal was completed in 1914, 401 years after Europeans first crossed Panama overland with Vasco Núñez de Balboa's expedition. The canal's opening led to a drastic decline in traffic at Chilean ports due to changes in maritime trade routes, even though the canal was closed for nearly seven months following a landslide in the Culebra Cut on September 18, 1915. The shift in trade routes notably impacted the growing sheep farming industry in southern Patagonia and adversely affected the economy of the Falkland Islands.