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50 Zaïres
| Issuer | Banque du Zaïre |
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| Year | 1982-1985 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of President Mobutu Sese Seko in three-quarter view to the right, wearing his characteristic leopard-skin toque and eyeglasses, positioned at center-right against a fine guilloche underprint in orange and blue tones. A large multicolor numeral '50' occupies the center field, with the denomination in cursive script 'Cinquante Zaïres' to the left, and a leaping leopard vignette in the lower center. The Banque du Zaïre state arms medallion appears at lower right, with the bank title in bold letterpress along the bottom border. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a traditional river fishing installation on the Congo River, with figures working atop and around a network of wooden pole scaffolding and suspended basket traps set in open water; a large fish is rendered in intaglio at lower right. The 'BZ' monogram within a guilloche rosette appears at lower left, and the denomination numeral '50' is set within a large lathe-work circle at upper right. The printer's imprint 'Giesecke & Devrient Munich' appears at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | BANQUE DU ZAÏRE Cinquante Zaïres 50 LE CONTREFACTEUR EST PUNI DE SERVITUDE PENALE (Translation: Bank of Zaïre Fifty Zaires 50 / The counterfeiter is punished by penal servitude) |
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