1000 Francos / Francs

The Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale — the BEAC — issues a single currency shared across six Central African nations: Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo. That arrangement, inherited from the CFA franc zone architecture established under French colonial monetary policy, means this note circulated legally across borders that were otherwise quite resistant to integration. The same physical note could pass through Douala, Libreville, and Bangui without any exchange requirement.

Oberthur Fiduciaire's Rennes facility printed the bulk of BEAC issues through this period. The 1000 Francs denomination was the workhorse of daily commerce across the zone in 1985.