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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale |
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| Year | 1993-2000 |
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| Reference(s) | P#602P |
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| Signature(s) | 1993 - Mamalepot and Mebara 1994 - Mamalepot and Ognagna 1995 - Mamalepot and Ognagna 1997 - Mamalepot and Ognagna 1998 - Mamalepot and Ognagna 1999 - Mamalepot and Ognagna 2000 - Mamalepot and Aleka-Rybert |
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| Protection description | a young man's portrait, visible when held to light |
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The Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale — known by its French acronym BEAC — serves six CFA franc zone member states across Central Africa, meaning a single note series circulates simultaneously in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. The remarkably long run of near-identical signature combinations here, with Mamalepot holding his position across every date in the series while the counter-signatory rotates, reflects the institutional stability the BEAC projected during a decade when several of its member states were anything but stable politically.
The 1994 date is particularly significant: the CFA franc was devalued by 50 percent against the French franc on January 12 of that year — the first devaluation since the currency's creation in 1945, and a shock that effectively halved the purchasing power of every note already in circulation.