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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale - République Populaire du Congo |
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| Year | 1974-1984 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (Bank of Central African States, 1973-date) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of an elder male figure at right, rendered in fine engraved detail and dressed in traditional ornamented attire, set against a central vignette of an industrial riverside installation with warehouses and loading infrastructure. A large watermark void occupies the left-centre field, flanked by intricate guilloche border panels in blue and terracotta tones. Two signature lines appear in the centre field above the denomination legend at bottom. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette portrays a commercial aircraft on an airfield tarmac alongside a freight train, evoking the nation's transport infrastructure; a large traditional African mask occupies the left, while an anthropomorphic figurative sculpture stands at right. The composition is framed by stylised chevron-pattern guilloche borders in blue and mauve tones, with a legal warning panel in the lower right corner. |
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The Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale — the BEAC — replaced the earlier Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique Équatoriale et du Cameroun in 1972, and this note belongs to the first generation of issues under the new institution. Congo was still officially the République Populaire du Congo at the time, a Marxist-Leninist state following the 1968 coup, which made its continued membership in a French-administered monetary union something of an ideological incongruity.
Five distinct signature combinations across the series reflect the frequency of personnel changes at both central bank and national delegate level over the decade of issue — Oye Mba later became President of Gabon.