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500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale du Congo |
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| Year | 2013-2022 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of two diamond miners at work within a large diamond-shaped guilloche frame at left; the interlocked CBC monogram watermark area occupies the centre. Upper legend reads BANQUE CENTRALE DU CONGO; denomination 500 appears in numerals at lower left and upper right, with CINQ CENTS FRANCS at lower left margin. Governor signature and date at lower right. |
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| Protection description | diamond shape and numeral 500 visible against light; embedded security thread; denomination numeral at lower right corner. |
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The Banque Centrale du Congo has issued successive date varieties of this denomination with little structural change, reflecting a policy of continuity over redesign. Giesecke & Devrient, the Munich-based security printer, has supplied much of the DRC's circulating currency since the post-Mobutu monetary reconstruction, when the country needed to rebuild credible note production infrastructure quickly and lacked domestic capacity to do so.
The suffix letter progression — P#96A through 96D — tracks date updates across the series, not design changes. The 96D is the most recent and most available variety.