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5 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Katanga |
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| Year | 1961 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | A stylized bunch of bananas (Musa x paradisiaca, family Musaceae) rendered in bold incuse outline occupies the central field within a raised inner circle. The design is executed in a modernist African graphic style, with the curved fruit forms arranged in an overlapping, radiating composition. The circumferential legend KATANGA appears in angular, stylized Latin capitals around the outer border, flanked at the lower left and lower right by two small Katanga crosses serving as decorative stops. |
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| Reverse description | A large Katanga cross — the traditional copper ingot cross used as indigenous currency — dominates the central field in bold relief, its four splayed arms filling the coin's interior. To the upper right of the cross, the two-line issuer legend BANQUE NATIONALE is inscribed in stylized Latin capitals. The denomination numeral 5 and the currency abbreviation FR appear to the left of the cross, while the date 1961 is placed in the lower exergual area below the cross, all contained within a raised border circle. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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