20 Francs - Emile Gentil

Issuer	Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française et du Cameroun
Year	1957
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Printer	Banque de France, France
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Obverse description	Brown intaglio on multicolour underprint, with an engraved portrait of explorer Émile Gentil in military uniform and peaked cap at right, flanked by a central vignette of an African village scene with figures engaged in daily activities before thatched huts and a mountainous background. Geometric guilloche panels frame the composition at left and right, with the denomination numeral '20' repeated in each corner. Two manuscript facsimile signatures appear in the centre field for Le Président and Le Directeur Général, with the designer and engraver credits lettered below.
Obverse lettering	VINGT FRANCS ÉMILE. GENTIL INSTITUT D'ÉMISSION DE L'AFRIQUE ÉQUATORIALE FRANÇAISE ET DU CAMEROUN LE PRÉSIDENT, LE DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL, P. MUNIER FEC. BROUTIN SC. (Translation: Twenty Francs / Emile Gentil / Emission Institute of French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon / The President / The Director General)
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