Description
Obverse
Mobutu Sese Seko (President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1965 to 1997)
Lettering: BANQUE DU ZAÏRE
Reverse
Coat of arms of Zaire and the motto “Justice, Peace, Work”
Lettering:
1973·DIX MAKUTA
10
JUSTICE PAIX TRAVAIL
Edge
Reeded
Comments
The Country nomenclature details:
Congo Free State(1877/1885 to 1908) and Belgian Congo (1908-1960)
Republic of the Congo – Léopoldville (1960–1964)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (1964–1971)
Republic of Zaire (1971–1997)
and again as Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997-)
