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5 Equatorial Francs
| Issuer | Bank of the Equatorial Territories |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Composition | Polymer |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a native Amazonian child wearing a large feathered headdress, set against a vivid rainforest underprint with tropical pitcher plants to the right. A geometric triangular guilloche pattern in red, orange, and black fills the left margin, with a large numeral '5' security element overlaid. Two facsimile signatures appear at upper right. |
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| Reverse description | A blue poison dart frog (Dendrobates azureus) occupies the left field, with a central vignette of a costumed dancer before an audience and a pipe player to the right, all set within a lush Amazonian rainforest underprint. Bilingual scientific and common-name inscriptions in French and English appear in the lower portion. |
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The Bank of the Equatorial Territories is not a recognized central bank — it has no sovereign mandate, no monetary authority, and no issuing jurisdiction. Notes of this type are fantasy pieces, produced commercially for the collectibles market rather than for any actual circulation. Franck Medina has designed several such items, typically on polymer substrate, sold as novelty or collector currency.
No exchange rate has ever existed for the "Equatorial Franc." The note is legally and monetarily inert.