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5 000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale du Congo |
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| Year | 2005-2022 |
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| Value | 5000 Francs |
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| Obverse description | A central vignette of a group of zebras rendered in intaglio dominates the middle field, set against a fine guilloche underprint in orange and gold tones. To the right, a detailed intaglio vignette of a Hemba ancestral statuette, adorned with a beaded necklace, occupies the right portion of the note, with the legend 'STATUETTE HEMBA' inscribed below. The upper left area carries an outline map of the Congo in white on orange, while the denomination '5000F' appears in large numerals at lower left and upper right, flanked by a dark security device at the right margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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| Comments |
P#102 spans a remarkably long production window — nearly two decades of reissue under the same base design — which reflects chronic budgetary and logistical constraints at the Hôtel des Monnaies rather than any deliberate continuity policy. The facility in Kinshasa has operated intermittently since the late 1980s, and domestic printing capacity has never been fully reliable, leading to uneven paper quality and inconsistent security feature application across print runs.
Two governors' signatures appear across the series: Masangu Mulongo, who oversaw the DRC's post-hyperinflation monetary stabilization from 1997, and Mutombo Mwana Nyembo, appointed in 2013.