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| 正面描述 | Central vignette shows two riders mounted on African elephants set against a tropical palm-tree background, rendered in fine intaglio engraving in blue-grey tones. To the left, a large yellow guilloche rosette underprint frames the denomination "CENT FRANCS" and the inscription "PAYABLES A VUE" with two facsimile signature lines below. The bank title "BANQUE CENTRALE DU CONGO BELGE ET DU RUANDA-URUNDI" runs across the top, with the numeral "100" repeated in each corner. |
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| 背面描述 | The right half of the reverse is dominated by a close-up intaglio vignette of two Ankole-Watusi cattle with their characteristically massive curved horns, while a herdsman in traditional dress stands in the middle ground. To the left, a large circular watermark panel is framed by an intricate guilloche border, with the denomination numeral "100" in the lower left corner. The Dutch bank title "CENTRALE BANK VAN BELGISCH-CONGO EN RUANDA-URUNDI" appears at the top, and a bold anti-counterfeiting legend runs along the bottom banner. |
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The Banque Centrale du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi was a short-lived institution, established in 1952 when the Belgian authorities separated the monetary administration of the Congo from the earlier Banque du Congo Belge. This note belongs to the opening years of that transition — a period when Brussels was attempting to rationalize colonial currency arrangements across three territories that shared neither economy nor infrastructure.
Waterlow & Sons had a long relationship with Belgian colonial currency contracts. The firm's liquidation in 1961 — the same year Congolese independence effectively ended the issuing authority itself — makes the timing of this series quietly significant.