Catalog
100 Francs CFA
| Issuer | Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale (BEAC) |
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| Year | 1975-1998 |
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| Value | 100 Francs CFA |
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| Obverse description | Three Giant Elands (Taurotragus derbianus), commonly known as Lord Derby's eland, depicted in left-facing profile. The animals are rendered in bold relief, arranged in a row across the central field. The legend REPUBLIQUE CENTRAFRICAINE arcs along the upper periphery, while the engraver's signature G.B.L.BAZOR and the mintmark CR appear in the lower field. |
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| Mintage | 1975 - - 2,000,000 1976 - - 1,000,000 1979 - - 900,000 1982 - - 1983 - - 3,000,000 1984 - - 1985 - - 1,000,000 1988 - - 500,000 1990 - - 1996 - does not exist - 1998 - does not exist - |
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The BEAC replaced the Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique Équatoriale et du Cameroun in 1972, and this nickel 100 Francs was among the first issues struck under the new central banking arrangement covering Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Equatorial Guinea's inclusion was unusual — a former Spanish colony grafted onto a franc zone institution, adopting the CFA franc only in 1985 after years of economic dysfunction under Macías Nguema's brutal dictatorship.
The series ran through 1998, at which point the 100 Francs denomination was replaced by a bimetallic type.