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| 表面の説明 | A finely engraved intaglio portrait of an African man in three-quarter profile occupies a guilloché-bordered vignette at left, with a river scene at lower centre showing dugout canoes and figures loading cargo at a riverside dock, all set against an elaborate guilloché underprint. Denomination numerals '1000' appear at each corner, and two six-pointed stars are positioned at the upper lateral borders. Two manuscript facsimile signatures appear below the central denomination panel, attributed to the Premier Directeur and the Gouverneur respectively. |
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The Banque Centrale du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi was itself a transitional institution — created in 1952 to replace the Banque du Congo Belge, it administered currency across three territories that Belgium governed under distinctly different legal arrangements: a colony, and two League of Nations mandate territories. A single note circulating across all three was a bureaucratic convenience that papered over real constitutional distinctions.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced high-denomination colonial notes for several British and European issuing authorities simultaneously during this period, sharing press resources while maintaining separate plate security. At 1000 Francs, this was the ceiling of the series — serious purchasing power in a territory where wage labor was largely denominated in far smaller figures.