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| Currency of the Belgian Congo |
Belgian Congo currency 100 Francs - 100 Frank banknote of 1960, issued by the Banque Centrale du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi - Centrale Bank van Belgisch-Congo en Ruanda-Urundi.Belgian Congo banknotes, Belgian Congo paper money, Belgian Congo bank notes.
Obverse: Portrait of Leopold II, King of the Belgians (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909). Leopold II was the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken on his own behalf. He used Henry Morton Stanley to help him lay claim to the Congo, an area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Reverse: African basket weavers.