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5 Francs
| Uitgever | Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale |
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| Jaar | 1934-1941 |
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| Valuta | Franc (1895-1944) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | The obverse is dominated by a central portrait vignette of an African man in traditional dress and white head wrap, rendered in three-quarter view against a lush tropical foliage underprint in green and ochre tones. A large oval watermark window framed by guilloche ornamentation occupies the left field, while the denomination numeral '5' appears in blue at the upper corners. Two manuscript signatures are positioned to the right — Le Président above and Le Directeur Général below — accompanied by a handwritten date. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | BANQUE DE L'AFRIQUE OCCIDENTALE CINQ FRANCS (Translation: Bank of West Africa / Five Francs) |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale held a unique position among colonial monetary institutions — it was a private bank, not a state body, operating under a series of French government concessions that granted it sole right of issue across French West Africa. That arrangement made its notes an unusual hybrid: private paper backed by colonial authority, circulating across territories from Senegal to Niger.
Printing by the Banque de France conferred a degree of technical quality that the BAO's own resources could never have matched, though the relationship was one of contracted service, not institutional merger. Notes from this long print run span a politically volatile stretch, from mid-Depression austerity through the ruptures of the Second World War and the Vichy administration's complicated relationship with its African territories.