100 Francs CFA

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.