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10 000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des Comores |
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| Year | 2006-2025 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Obverse description | Brown and yellow tones on multicolour underprint, with the Friday Mosque in Moroni depicted in vignette at left and a portrait of al-Habib Seyyid O. bin Sumeit at centre. Comorian poetic verse in Shikomori script runs across the upper register, with the issuer's name in French — BANQUE CENTRALE DES COMORES — and the denomination DIX MILLE FRANCS rendered in intaglio along the lower margin. The denomination 10000 appears in both Western and Arabic-Eastern numerals. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10000 TSILUHU TSI KADIMIYA YE MHUWU TSAMBIYA YE MWANA YAZIDI MAHA -`KUNEHA KWIYI BO MSANKANSI HA YISHIYA TSI SHEWUSHA YE MWANSHE -`KUNTRA HAYANI BO DALAMBWANI `BA MAFAHAYA YANU YAPVWA MWANADAMU BANQUE CENTRALE DES COMORES DIX MILLE FRANCS (Translation: I spoke to the eldest I spoke to the ones most advanved in age Will you preserve my authority, paddle-carrier He listened to me, I turned to the cadet Do you keep any respect for me, night smuggler of the sea Prestige is an attrubute of man Central Bank of the Comoros, Ten Thousand Francs) |
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Roger Pfund is a Geneva-based artist whose banknote work spans several African and Pacific issuers — his involvement here marks one of the more unusual crossovers between fine-arts printmaking and central bank commission work. The Banque de France has printed Comorian currency since the islands' monetary arrangements were formalized after independence in 1975, a relationship that reflects the franc comorien's fixed peg to the euro (formerly the French franc), maintained through a guarantee agreement with the French Treasury.
The note's long print run — the 2006 series remaining current well into the 2020s — points to the limited throughput demands of an archipelago economy of under a million people.