Catalog
500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale - République Populaire du Congo |
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| Year | 1985-1991 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire, France |
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| Obverse lettering | RÉPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DU CONGO CINQ CENTS FRANCS (Translation: People's Republic of the Congo Five Hundred Francs) |
| Reverse description | Left-centre vignette of an intaglio-engraved figure of a seated wood-carver at work, surrounded by a collection of traditional African carved masks and sculptural objects. To the right, two additional carved masks are rendered in fine intaglio detail against a yellow guilloche underprint, with a circular watermark area at centre-right. A legal warning panel in French appears at lower centre. |
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The Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale served six member states simultaneously, meaning this note circulated under Congo-Brazzaville's designation while being structurally identical — save for a letter code — to issues from Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, Chad, and Equatorial Guinea. The letter "C" in the serial prefix identified it as Congolese. Four distinct signature combinations across the series reflect the governor and vice-governor pairings at BEAC headquarters in Yaoundé during a six-year window of significant austerity, as falling oil revenues hammered the franc zone economies throughout the late 1980s.
Oberthur's Rennes facility handled the full run.