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500 Nouveaux Zaïres
| Issuer | Banque du Zaïre |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Printer | Giesecke & Devrient |
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| Reverse description | Predominantly blue-violet intaglio print with a panoramic aerial vignette of the Banque du Zaïre headquarters building complex in Kinshasa at centre-left. Denomination 500 in large numeral at upper-left; stylised bank monogram vignette at lower-right within geometric guilloche border. |
| Reverse lettering | BANQUE DU ZAÏRE 500 LE CONTREFACTEUR EST PUNI DE SERVITUDE PÉNALE |
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By 1994, the Banque du Zaïre was printing money in denominations that would have seemed absurd a decade earlier. The 500 Nouveaux Zaïres note was part of the "new zaïre" redenomination introduced in 1993, at a rate of 1 NZ to 3,000,000 old zaïres — itself a measure of how completely Mobutu's government had destroyed the currency through deficit monetization. The redenomination bought almost no time; inflation continued at several thousand percent annually, and notes like this one were obsolete almost as soon as Giesecke & Devrient delivered them.
The series was superseded in 1997 when Laurent-Désiré Kabila renamed the country the Democratic Republic of Congo and replaced the zaïre entirely.