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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest |
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| Year | 1961-1965 |
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| Size | 170 x 110 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE DES ÉTATS DE L'AFRIQUE DE L'OUEST CINQ MILLE FRANCS 5000 LE PRÉSIDENT LE DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL |
| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette of a smiling woman in traditional headwrap and beaded necklace at right foreground, with figures operating a grain mill and thatched huts in the background landscape. Issuer's name runs across the top; an anti-counterfeiting warning inscription appears in a panel at lower left. |
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The BCEAO was established in 1959 as the successor to the Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Occidentale Française, and this high-denomination note belongs to the union's earliest independent issue — printed at the Banque de France's own presses in a relationship that would persist for decades. The March 1961 signature combination, with Robert Tézenas du Montcel as one signatory, reflects the transitional administrative staffing of the period: French technocrats still occupying senior roles within nominally independent West African monetary institutions.
Henri Konan Bédié's appearance among the later undated signatories is notable — he went on to become President of Côte d'Ivoire from 1993 to 1999. Edem Kodjo, who signs in two combinations, later served as Prime Minister of Togo.