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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Size | 185 × 102 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER MILLE FRANCS Guadeloupe (Translation: Central Fund of Overseas France Thousand Francs Guadeloupe) |
| Reverse description | Multicolour reverse with a central intaglio vignette of a woman carrying a basket of bananas at centre left, flanked at both lateral margins by stylised butterfly motifs. Repeated red GUADELOUPE overprints are applied throughout the marginal guilloche border. The statutory anti-counterfeiting warning and denomination are rendered in intaglio lettering across the lower portion of the note. |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was the common issuing authority for French overseas territories across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific — a single institution serving radically different economies simultaneously. By 1960, that arrangement was unraveling fast. Most of French sub-Saharan Africa gained independence that year, and the CCFOM was in the process of being superseded by successor institutions like the BCEAO and BEAC.
Pick 39 sits at the tail end of the CCFOM's operational life, which means circulated survivors from intended distribution areas are harder to attribute geographically than the catalog entry implies.