Product Description
SCWPM.#68 - TBB.#B146a - Date: 30-1-1995 -Grade: Au -Signature: 9 - Prefix: D/K
Description: - Colour: red. - Front: French text; bank initials as registration device; leopard; Mobutu Sésé Seko in uniform with cap; coat of arms. -
Back: French text; denomination; bank initials. -
Wide windowed security thread. - Thin windowed security thread with demetalized REPUBLIQUE DU ZAIRE. -
Watermark: Mobutu Sésé Seko.
Printer: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT • MUNICH. -
Size: 160 x 74 mm. - material: paper.
Zaire,
officially the Republic of Zaire, was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 1997. Zaire is located in Central Africa and was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa (after Sudan and Algeria), and the 11th-largest country (from 1965 to 1997) in the world. With a population of over 23 million inhabitants, Zaire was the most populous officially Francophone country in Africa, as well as one of the most populous in Africa.