Catalog
1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale |
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| Year | 1937-1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'AFRIQUE OCCIDENTALE MILLE FRANCS SÉB. LAURENT FEC. RITA - J. PIEL SC. |
| Reverse description | The central vignette repeats the allegorical composition of a laurel-crowned European woman and a braided African woman with a child between them, rendered in intaglio against a floral guilloche underprint in orange and blue tones. The denomination MILLE FRANCS is printed in large blue letterpress to the right, accompanied by the anti-counterfeiting legal warning text in red. A decorative floral and foliate border frames the design, with the issuer's name across the top and engraver's credit at the lower right. |
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The Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale served as the note-issuing authority across French West Africa from 1901, operating under a concession from the French state rather than as a central bank in the modern sense. This series straddles the fall of the Third Republic and the Vichy period — notes dated within this range circulated under dramatically different political administrations without any change to the paper itself.
Marguerite Dreyfus, who signed her engraving work as "Rita," contributed to a number of Banque de France productions during this period. Jules Piel was among the more prolific engravers on the Chamalières workshop roster in the 1930s and 1940s.