Catalog
1000 Francs
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission des Comores |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | At right, a three-quarter profile portrait of a young Comorian woman in traditional printed dress is set against a central vignette of a tropical coastal scene with palm trees and a mountain-backed bay. Ornate guilloche borders with floral and arabesque motifs frame both lateral margins, and a watermark void occupies the upper left. Two signatures appear below the central vignette, with the denomination MILLE FRANCS rendered in red intaglio at lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | بنك إيكمو الف فرنك LES AUTEURS OU COMPLICES DE FALSIFICATION OU DE CONTREFAÇON DE BILLETS DE BANQUE SERONT PUNIS CONFORMÉMENT AUX LOIS ET ACTES EN VIGUEUR. |
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The Institut d'Émission des Comores had a brief operational life. It was established following the Comorian unilateral declaration of independence in 1975 and was quickly superseded by the Banque Centrale des Comores in 1981. Notes issued under this authority occupy a narrow six-year window of institutional history, during which the archipelago's monetary arrangements remained tangled — Mayotte's contested status meant the franc zone relationship had to be renegotiated rather than simply inherited from the French colonial issuer.
Printed by the Banque de France on the same presses that handled numerous Francophone African issues of the period, the P#8 shares plate lineage with earlier Comoros issues from the Institut d'Émission Malgache et des Comores.