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500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale - République Populaire du Congo |
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| Year | 1974-1984 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of an African woman in left profile, wearing earrings and traditional braided hair, set against geometric patterned underprint borders in terracotta and brown tones. A central vignette at right presents a riverside scene with a figure wading in shallow water amid dense tropical vegetation. Two manuscript signatures appear at centre, attributed to Le Directeur Général and Un Censeur respectively. |
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| Reverse description | At left, a large African ceremonial mask rendered in intaglio; at centre, a classroom vignette with students seated at desks engaged in study, flanked by a figure in a laboratory coat working at a bench with scientific apparatus. At far right stands a stylized African figurine sculpture. The entire design is framed by a repetitive decorative underprint pattern of stylized palm motifs in salmon and brown. |
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The Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale — the common central bank for the six BEAC member states — issued separate national series for each country despite sharing a currency zone and a common printer. This Congolese 500 Francs belongs to a transitional period during which the Congo-Brazzaville government styled itself a People's Republic, a designation it held from 1970 until 1991. Three signature combinations across a decade-long print run reflect turnover in both the BEAC governorship and the national finance ministry during a period of considerable political instability in Brazzaville.