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500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Nationale - République de Djibouti |
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| Year | 1979-1988 |
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| Currency | Djibouti Franc (1977-date) |
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| Reverse lettering | ۵۰۰ جمهورية جيبوتي البنك الوطني 500 CINQ CENT FRANCS SERONT PUNIS DE TRAVAUX FORCÉS LES CONTREFACTEURS ET CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT USAGE DE BILLETES CONTREFAITS (Translation: Republic of Djibouti. National Bank. Five hundred francs. The counterfeiters and those who will have used counterfeit notes will be punished with forced labor.) |
| Signature(s) | Le Gouverneur |
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Djibouti's independence from France in 1977 left the territory's monetary system almost entirely reliant on French institutional infrastructure, and this note reflects that bluntly — printed by the Banque de France in Paris, on French cotton paper, for a nominally sovereign central bank established just two years prior. The Banque Nationale de Djibouti was itself a successor to the Banque de Djibouti et de Somalie, which had functioned under French colonial oversight.
The single signature line — "Le Gouverneur" — with no countersigning officer was a deliberate simplification for a young institution still consolidating its administrative apparatus through the early 1980s.