Catalog
5000 Francs CFA
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest |
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| Year | 2003-2026 |
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| Reference(s) | P#117A |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE DES ÉTATS DE L'AFRIQUE DE L'OUEST 5000 CINQ MILLE FRANCS CFA |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE DES ÉTATS DE L'AFRIQUE DE L'OUEST 5000 CINQ MILLE FRANCS CFA B.C.E.A.O. LE GOUVERNEUR LE PRÉSIDENT DU CONSEIL DES MINISTRES |
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The CFA franc zone is governed by two separate central banks — BCEAO covers the eight West African states, BEAC the six Central African ones — and the notes are not interchangeable despite sharing a name and peg to the euro. This 5000 franc denomination is the highest-value note in regular BCEAO circulation for most of the series' run, making the signature combinations more than bureaucratic detail: each pairing reflects a Minister of Finance and a BCEAO Governor, both of whom must countersign, drawn from different member states by institutional convention.
Nineteen distinct signature combinations across roughly sixteen years is an unusually dense rotation for a single Pick number, driven by the political volatility of member states — Guinea-Bissau's José Mário Vaz, for instance, later became that country's president before being ousted in a prolonged constitutional crisis.