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20 Francs
| Issuer | Banque du Congo Belge |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK VAN BELGISCH CONGO TWINTIG FRANK BETAALBAAR OP ZICHT ZEVENDE UITGIFTE -1948 DE NAMAKER WORDT DOOR DE WET MET DWANGARBEID GESTRAFT |
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| Protection description | Elephant's head watermark visible in the circular unprinted zone at lower right on obverse / lower left on reverse |
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By 1948, the Banque du Congo Belge had been issuing notes through Thomas De La Rue for decades, a relationship that kept production entirely outside the colony itself — a common enough arrangement for Belgian colonial currency, but one that created real vulnerabilities during the Second World War when shipping routes were disrupted. The postwar P#15 series of which this is a part ran across multiple signature varieties (the "F" suffix indicating a specific signing combination), making complete set assembly harder than the denomination's relative availability might suggest.
The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature on this issue — no security thread, no UV-reactive elements.