500 Francs

Issuer	Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale - République Populaire du Congo
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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Signature(s)	Joudiou / Ntang Oye Mba / Kamgueu Oye Mba / Tchepannou
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