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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 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Obverse lettering | INSTITUT D'EMISSION DE L'A.E.F. ET DU CAMEROUN CINQ FRANCS BOUGAINVILLE G. A. KLEIN FEC. G. BELTRAND SC. (Translation: Emission Institute of French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon Five Francs) |
| 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. |
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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.