| Descripción del anverso |
Blue, brown and multicolour. Bearded elder male in traditional attire at left, industrial building and palm trees at centre as central vignette, with guilloche underprint. Denomination "CINQ MILLE FRANCS" inscribed across centre, bank title at top, date and serial prefix below. |
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| Descripción del reverso |
Multicolour. Young woman with headwrap at right, village scene at centre with figures operating a grain grinder and a child carrying a vessel on head, traditional thatched huts in background. Bank title at top, denomination numeral "5000" at upper corners, legal tender clause in French at lower left. |
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The BCEAO was established in 1959 as the successor institution to the Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Occidentale Française, and this high-denomination note belongs to the earliest years of that transition — issued across member states that had only just achieved independence. The rotating national signatories are the real story here: the left signature changed depending on which member state's national director was designated, while Robert Julienne held the right signature across nearly the entire run as the institution's first director-general, only replaced by Abdoulaye Fadiga in the final 1965 pairing.
That single Kodjo/Fadiga combination makes it the rarest signature variant in the series.