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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Conseil Monétaire de la République du Congo |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Currency | Franc (1960-1967) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEIL MONÉTAIRE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DU CONGO INSTITUT D'EMISSION CINQ MILLE FRANCS PAYABLES À VUE LE CONTREFACTEUR EST PUNI DE SERVITUDE PÉNALE 5000 |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of three African men standing in a pirogue, paddling on a river with tropical foliage in the background, rendered in intaglio in a single green tone. Large guilloche rosettes flank the central scene at left and right, each bearing the numeral 5000. The denomination panel CINQ MILLE FRANCS appears at the bottom centre within a rectangular cartouche. |
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The Conseil Monétaire de la République du Congo was a transitional institution — a stopgap monetary authority established after independence in 1960 while the new nation worked toward a functioning central bank. These notes were issued during that brief window before the Banque Nationale du Congo took over, giving the series an unusually short official lifespan.
Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement was typical of the period; the New Malden firm printed for dozens of newly independent African states in the early 1960s, often working from designs commissioned under tight political deadlines. At this denomination, circulation was always limited — few ordinary transactions reached 5000 francs — which paradoxically makes heavily used examples more historically interesting than pristine ones.