5 Francs without branch name

Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale was established in 1901 as the note-issuing authority for French West Africa, and this 1919 issue appeared during a period when the bank was consolidating its circulating paper across multiple territories — Senegal, Dahomey, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, and others — without specifying a branch, which is precisely what distinguishes this P#5G from related types in the series that carry explicit branch overprints or printed place names.

Bellery-Desfontaines was primarily an illustrator and poster artist, not a conventional banknote designer, which gives the artwork an unusual graphic quality for the period. Florian's engraving for the Banque de France was meticulous; the plate work on this series is noticeably finer than contemporaneous colonial issues from other French printers.