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500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale - République Fédérale du Cameroun |
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| Year | 1962 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio vignette at centre with a man wearing a traditional wide-brimmed straw hat at left, flanked by two long-horned Zebu cattle in the foreground, against a mountainous landscape background rendered in soft pastel tones. Ornate geometric guilloche panels border the note on both sides, with the denomination numeral '500' in each upper corner. Title 'BANQUE CENTRALE' appears across the top, with 'CINQ CENTS FRANCS' along the lower margin. |
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The Banque Centrale de la République Fédérale du Cameroun was a short-lived institution, created in 1961 when the former French and British trust territories merged and surviving only until 1972 when the federation became a unitary state and the BEAC took over. This 500 Francs sits squarely in that transitional window, issued just a year after federation and printed by the Banque de France — the standard arrangement for Francophone African states newly navigating monetary independence while still deeply tied to French printing infrastructure.
The "fédérale" in the issuer name is the detail worth noting: it reflects a political compromise that lasted barely a decade.