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500 Francs

Issuer Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale - République Populaire du Congo
Year 1974-1984
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Size 151 × 80 mm
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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.
Obverse lettering RÉPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DU CONGO CINQ CENTS FRANCS
(Translation: PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO FIVE HUNDRED FRANCS)
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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