Catalog
5000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest |
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| Year | 1992-2003 |
| Type | Trial banknote |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour. Two women in traditional dress at centre-left handling large pottery vessels, with children and additional figures in a village market scene at background. Guilloche borders frame the composition with BCEAO monogram at right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The BCEAO's 5000 Franc notes of this period carry an unusually rich signature history — eleven distinct combinations across just over a decade, reflecting genuine institutional turnover rather than routine rotation. Alassane Ouattara, whose 1992 signature appears here as BCEAO Governor, had already served as IMF Deputy Managing Director and would later become President of Côte d'Ivoire. Charles Konan Banny held the governorship with remarkable continuity, signing across ten of the twelve combinations in this series before himself entering Ivorian politics.
The "H" suffix in the Pick reference designates the Côte d'Ivoire issue within the common BCEAO series — member states shared identical designs but received country-coded serial prefixes, with "H" assigned to Abidjan.