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10 Zaïres
| Issuer | Banque du Zaïre |
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| Year | 1979-1981 |
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| In circulation to | 26 November 1993 |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of President Mobutu Sese Seko in military uniform with decorations, set within an ornate shield-shaped vignette on the left, flanked by fine guilloche underprint in green and orange tones. The state coat of arms appears in the upper left corner, while a leaping leopard vignette occupies the lower right. The large numeral '10' and the denomination text 'DIX ZAÏRES' are printed in multicolour guilloche to the right of the portrait, with the date and governor's signature below. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DU ZAÏRE DIX ZAÏRES LE GOUVERNEUR |
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The Banque du Zaïre was established in 1964 following the renaming of the Belgian Congo's successor state, but the currency itself — the zaïre — was introduced only in 1967 as part of Mobutu's broader programme of "authenticité," a deliberate dismantling of colonial nomenclature that swept through place names, personal names, and the money supply simultaneously. By the time this note was issued, the zaïre had already lost significant ground to inflation, a process that would accelerate catastrophically through the 1980s and into the hyperinflationary collapse of the early 1990s.
Giesecke & Devrient handled much of Zaïre's production during this period, a common arrangement for Francophone and Central African states without domestic printing infrastructure.