1000 Francs

The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was the transitional monetary authority threading French colonial currencies through decolonization — this 1960 note falls squarely in that turbulent window when territories across French Africa and the Pacific were either newly independent or days from becoming so. The CCFOM had already been effectively superseded in much of sub-Saharan Africa by the Institut d'Émission, yet continued issuing under its own name for remaining territories with no alternative infrastructure in place.

P#35 was valid across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously, which complicates provenance significantly. Overprint variants exist for specific territories; unoverprinted examples like this one circulated where no local successor authority had yet claimed the issuance function.