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25 Francs Dakar
| Issuer | Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale |
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| Year | 1920-1926 |
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| Engraver(s) | Ernest Florian and Frédéric Florian |
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| Obverse description | A central vignette renders a West African coastal landscape at sunset, flanked left and right by tall palm and baobab trees beneath which elephants stand at rest. The upper border carries an octagonal cartouche with a rooster vignette, with serial number panels to either side, while the denomination appears in large letterpress type across the centre. Signatures of the Président and the Administrateur-Directeur appear above the date and place of issue, with the engravers' credits printed in the lower margins. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in orange-red and composed in the Arabic script, with the denomination and bank name rendered in large calligraphic characters against an ornate geometric guilloche background. Intricate lattice and rosette panels fill the upper centre, and elaborate corner ornaments frame the overall composition, with a central hexagonal void corresponding to the seal position on the face. The designer's credit appears in Latin characters in the lower left margin. |
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| Variants | P#7B - 11.09.1919*, 12.02.1920* & 12.07.1923* * not listed in catalog P#7Ba - 15.04.1920 P#7Bb - 09.07.1925 P#7Bc - 10.06.1926 |
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