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500 Nouveaux Zaïres
| Issuer | Banque du Zaïre |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Printer | Printed in Argentina |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Hôtel des Monnaies-Zaïre building complex rendered in fine intaglio engraving, occupying the left and centre of the note. A large stylised 'BZ' monogram appears at lower right within a geometric guilloche panel, alongside the bank's book-and-torch emblem. |
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| Variants | P#64A-X - First type P#64A-XA - Second type |
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By 1994, the Banque du Zaïre was printing money in a state of near-total institutional collapse. Mobutu's government had been financing deficits through the press for years, and annual inflation had exceeded 9,000% in 1994 alone. The "nouveaux zaïres" redenomination of 1993 — replacing old zaïres at 3,000,000 to 1 — bought almost no time. Notes of this denomination lost practical value within weeks of issue.
The P#64A designation distinguishes a signature variety within the series. Zaïre notes of this period frequently appear with paper fatigue and heavy handling damage, a direct consequence of hyperinflation forcing high-denomination notes into daily retail use at a furious velocity.