Catalog
5000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale |
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| Year | 1994-2002 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | Multicolor vignette with a woman carrying a head basket at lower left, set against a broad scene of cotton harvesting at center. Workers are shown gathering and sorting cotton bolls in the field. The composition is rendered in warm earth tones with a guilloche border. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the oval unprinted area at right on obverse; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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The BEAC 5000 Francs series circulated across six member states of the Communauté Économique et Monétaire de l'Afrique Centrale — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon — with each country assigned a letter prefix to its serial numbers. The "E" suffix in Pick 204E designates notes intended for Cameroon's allocation.
Mamalepot held the governorship signature position across the full run of this type, an unusually long tenure that spans three different co-signatories on the right. The shift from Kaltjob to Akumchi Awa between the 1999 and 2000 dates reflects a change at the directorate level in Yaoundé, where the BEAC maintains its headquarters.