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10 000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale - République Populaire du Congo |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Obverse description | The right half of the obverse is dominated by an intaglio vignette of a young African woman in three-quarter profile facing left, her head elaborately wrapped in a decorative headdress interwoven with tropical foliage rendered in multicolour. To the left, two stylized antelope heads are set against a dense geometric guilloche underprint in green, gold, and ochre tones, with a large blank oval at centre reserved for the watermark. Denominations "10 000" appear at upper left and upper right, with the issuing authority "RÉPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DU CONGO" across the top and "DIX MILLE FRANCS" along the lower border. |
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| Signature(s) | Oye Mba / Tchepannou |
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The Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale served six Central African nations under a shared franc zone, meaning this note circulated as legal tender across a currency union — the issuing authority was supranational, but the overprint and signature combination here anchors it specifically to the République Populaire du Congo, Brazzaville's Marxist-Leninist state at the time. Oye Mba served as BEAC Governor into the mid-1980s; the pairing with Tchepannou as the Congolese national signatory is specific to this short issue window.
Banque de France intaglio production at this denomination level was standard for the zone, but the 10 000 franc value was the highest circulating note in the BEAC series at the time — serious purchasing power in an economy where official salaries were often paid months in arrears.