Catalog
500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi |
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| Year | 1953-1955 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of an African woman in three-quarter view occupies the left portion of the note, set within an ornate intaglio frame. The central field carries a large multicolour guilloche rosette over which the denomination CINQ CENTS FRANCS and PAYABLES À VUE are printed in bold letterpress, flanked by two facsimile signatures below. A panoramic river and tropical landscape scene fills the lower centre, with the denomination numeral 500 repeated in the upper-left and lower-right corners against a finely engraved purple and orange underprint. |
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| Reverse description | A full-body vignette of an okapi stands centrally amid a naturalistic savannah landscape, rendered in fine intaglio engraving in tones of purple and brown. Two large circular watermark windows are positioned to the left and right of the central vignette, framed by elaborate guilloche borders. The Dutch denomination VIJF HONDERD FRANK and BETAALBAAR OP ZICHT appear in bold letterpress within the right-hand circular panel, with the bank title and anti-counterfeiting warning inscribed across the upper register. |
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| Protection description | Lion's head watermark |
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