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50 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale du Congo |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 50 Francs |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of a riverside fishermen's village on the Congo River, with thatched dwellings set among tropical vegetation and a pirogue on the water; fish are rendered in the foreground below the waterline. The caption 'UN VILLAGE DE PECHEURS AU BORD DU FLEUVE CONGO' appears beneath the vignette, with a colourful geometric guilloche border strip running horizontally across the lower register. Denomination '50 F' and the Swahili legend 'MAKUMI TANO' are printed at lower right, with the anti-counterfeiting notice 'LE CONTREFACTEUR EST PUNI DE SERVITUDE PENALE' at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE DU CONGO UN VILLAGE DE PECHEURS AU BORD DU FLEUVE CONGO MAKUMI TANO 50F FIFTY LE CONTREFACTEUR EST PUNI DE SERVITUDE PENALE |
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo reverted to its earlier name in 1997 after Mobutu's fall, and the Banque Centrale du Congo replaced the Banque du Zaïre accordingly. This 50 Francs note belongs to the first franc series reintroduced after that transition — the country had spent three decades using the zaïre, a currency so devastated by hyperinflation that by 1993 it required denominations in the millions.
Giesecke & Devrient, who printed this note in Leipzig, had by 2000 long established themselves as the dominant contractor for central African currency printing. The security provision here is modest — watermark and thread only, without the optical features that would appear in later Congolese issues.