50 Francs

Issuer	Banque Centrale du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi
Year	1957-1959
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Size	160 x 85 mm
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Obverse description	An intaglio-engraved vignette at centre right portrays an African industrial worker operating machinery in a textile factory, with additional workers and looms receding into the background in perspective. The left field is reserved for the date and a large blank area, overlaid with a multicolour guilloche rosette bearing the two manuscript signatures. The note is printed predominantly in red on a pale cream underprint, with denomination numerals in the corners and anti-counterfeiting text along the lower border.
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Reverse description	The central vignette, engraved in intaglio, presents a seated African woman working a traditional upright loom in an outdoor village setting, with thatched dwellings and palm trees in the middle ground. The composition fades into a warm orange-yellow tonal wash toward the right, framed by a geometric guilloche border with repeating diamond motifs. Two manuscript signatures appear below the vignette, labelled EEN DIRECTEUR and DE GOUVERNEUR, with the anti-counterfeiting legend printed in a red banner along the lower margin.
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