Catalog
1000 Francs / 200 Ariary
| Issuer | Banky Foiben'ny Repoblika Malagasy / Banque Centrale de la République Malgache |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Value | 1000 Francs = 200 Ariary (200 MGF) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a group of baobab trees set within a landscape, with an aloalo carved post vignette representing a herdsman and his zebu at center right. The facial value and statutory text are printed to the right against a fine guilloche security background, with ornamental borders running along the upper and lower edges. |
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| Protection description | a zebu head visible in the unprinted area to the right of the obverse portrait |
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| Comments |
Madagascar's central bank operated under a bilingual Franco-Malagasy identity throughout the 1970s, and this note reflects the transitional monetary arithmetic of that period — the ariary denomination printed alongside francs was not decorative but functional, the ariary having been established as the unit of account at a fixed rate of 5 francs to 1 ariary. Thomas De La Rue handled the printing, as they did for much of francophone Africa's post-independence currency production.
P#65 belongs to a series that would be superseded relatively quickly as Madagascar moved toward full ariary-only denominations in subsequent decades.