Catalog
5 Francs - Bougainville
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française et du Cameroun |
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| Year | 1957 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio note with a central vignette of the sailing frigate La Boudeuse at left, rendered against an open seascape. A portrait of the French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville occupies the right side of the composition. The denomination numeral and issuing authority legend are set within a framed panel across the upper portion of the note. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française et du Cameroun was a short-lived body, established in 1955 as France began restructuring its colonial monetary apparatus ahead of deaccession. This 5 Francs note was among the last issues under that authority before the transition to successor institutions following independence movements across French Equatorial Africa in 1960. Georges-André Klein designed for the Banque de France's printing arm across numerous colonial series; Beltrand and Chapon were both senior workshop engravers whose names appear across issues of this period.