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20 Francs 'Moise Tshombé'
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Katanga |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Printer | Waterlow & Sons Limited, United Kingdom (1810-1961) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Moise Tshombé at left, with a panoramic vignette of a Katangese city view at centre rendered in brown intaglio. The flag of Katanga appears at upper right, with guilloche rosettes bearing the numeral '20' in each corner. The date '01.12.60' is printed at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette in brown intaglio shows two miners operating a drill or boring machine underground, enclosed within an ornate guilloche border. Numerals '20' appear in large format at left and right within green guilloche underprint panels, against a lilac and green background. |
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| Protection description | multiple 'BNK' letters visible in the paper |
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