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10 Francs
| Issuer | Banque du Congo Belge |
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| Year | 1941-1942 |
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| Printer | Waterlow & Sons Limited, United Kingdom (1810-1961) |
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| Obverse description | Green on blue and pink underprint. A vignette at left portrays dancing Watusi figures against a background of thatched huts and trees. The bank's logo appears at the lower left, with the star of the Belgian Congo positioned to the left beneath a circular cartouche. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Banque du Congo Belge continued issuing notes from London after Belgium fell to Germany in May 1940 — the colonial banking apparatus relocated alongside the Belgian government-in-exile, and Waterlow & Sons handled production throughout the occupation years. This P#14 series was the result: notes for a colony whose metropole had ceased to function as a sovereign state.
Congo's mineral wealth, particularly uranium from Shinkolobwe, made the colony strategically critical to the Allies during this period, which partly explains why maintaining a functioning colonial currency was treated as a serious wartime priority rather than an administrative afterthought.