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5 Francs - Bougainville
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française et du Cameroun |
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| Year | 1957 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour note with an intaglio vignette of an African woman in traditional dress and jewellery positioned at left, resting beside a woven basket filled with tropical fruits including a pineapple and citrus. The background presents a tropical landscape with palm trees, mountains, and a colonial-style building at right amid cultivated fields. The anti-counterfeiting penal notice appears in a central cartouche, flanked by the denomination numerals '5' at each upper corner. |
| Reverse lettering | INSTITUT D'ÉMISSION DE L'A.E.F. ET DU CAMEROUN L'ART. 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI G. A. KLEIN FEC. A. CHAPON SC. (Translation: Emission Institute of French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labor those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorized by law.) |
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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.