Yes, each country is allowed to put desings and symbols to represent the country. Fe. in France they use a tree or Marianne, in Holland it's Queen Beatrix, Germany the Brandenburgertor.
I was in a chinatown store where they have a lot of those, small candarines and very large republic-period dollars. They are all fake, modern metals and badly made.
Those cents aren't valuable, only worth 1 cent. It's nice to have the whole collection of the centenary coins, but the silver ones you can't find in circulation.