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5 Francs Saint-Louis
| Uitgever | Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale |
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| Jaar | 1904-1918 |
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| Waarde | 5 Francs |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is printed entirely in green on an unprinted cream paper ground, enclosed within an ornate geometric and floral border with octagonal corner motifs. The text is rendered in two scripts side by side: Arabic on the left panel and a West African vernacular script on the right, each conveying the bank name and the note's payable-on-demand clause. A stylised foliate ornament appears at the base centre, with the designer credit h. Bellery Desfontaines in the lower right margin. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | بانك افريكي الغربي من اتي بهذه الورقة نذ بع اليه بع الشاعة h. Bellery Desfontaines |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale held a private concession to issue currency across French West Africa, a colonial banking privilege that persisted well into the twentieth century — this note predates the First World War reorganizations that would eventually reshape the franchise. Bellery-Desfontaines was primarily known as a poster artist and book illustrator in the Art Nouveau tradition, an unusual choice for banknote design work, and Florian's engraving had to translate that decorative sensibility into intaglio.
The Banque de France handled production, which was standard for French colonial issues of this period but worth noting given how rarely colonial and metropolitan printing infrastructure overlapped so directly.