Catalog
100 Francs
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française et du Cameroun |
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| Year | 1957 |
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| Value | 100 Francs (100 FCFA) |
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| Reverse lettering | INSTITUT d'EMISSION de L'AFRIQUE ÉQUATORIALE FRANÇAISE et du CAMEROUN CENT FRANCS L'ART. 139 DU CODE PENAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS À PERPETUITÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI (Translation: Institute of Emission of French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon Hundred Francs Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labour in perpetuity those who have counterfeited or falsified banknotes authorized by Law.) |
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| Protection description | Face of Sango girl (Oubangui) |
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The Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française et du Cameroun was established in 1955 as France began restructuring its colonial monetary architecture ahead of the political transitions that would follow. This note belongs to that brief window — after the old Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer arrangements were superseded but well before the wave of independences in 1960 dissolved the currency union entirely.
Printed at the Banque de France's own ateliers in Paris, the series had a short effective lifespan. Within three years of this note's issue, both the AEF federation and the Franco-Cameroonian monetary union it served had ceased to exist politically.