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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest |
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| Year | 1961-1965 |
| Type | Trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue, brown and multicolour. Vignette of an elderly bearded man in traditional robes at left, industrial building with palm trees at centre-right. Guilloche borders on both sides, denomination in numerals at upper corners, bank title across top, signatures of Le Président and Le Directeur Général below centre. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour. Portrait of a smiling woman in headwrap and jewellery at right, village scene with thatched huts and figures grinding corn at a hand mill in the background. Guilloche border panels on both sides, denomination in numerals at upper corners, anti-counterfeiting notice in a cartouche at lower left. |
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The BCEAO was established in 1959 as the successor monetary authority to the Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Occidentale Française, with this series among its earliest high-denomination issues — printed before several of the newly independent member states had even completed their constitutional frameworks. The rotating cast of signatories reflects that instability directly: each pairing represents a different member country's designated official alongside the central directorate, meaning the same note type circulated across Senegal, Upper Volta, Togo, Ivory Coast, and others simultaneously, distinguished only by signature combination.
Robert Julienne's persistent presence across all signature variants through 1965 anchors the continuity of French technical oversight during the transition period. Abdoulaye Fadiga, who eventually succeeded to the directorship, appears only in the final 1965 pairings.