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500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale |
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| Year | 1993-2002 |
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| Value | 500 Francs CFA (500 XAF) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a large baobab tree with a grazing antelope herd in the foreground; a Kota reliquary mask vignette appears at lower left. The denomination "CINQ CENTS FRANCS" is inscribed at lower right, with woven basket-pattern guilloche borders flanking the composition. |
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| Protection description | a shepherd's head, visible when held to light |
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| Comments |
The BEAC's 500 Franc notes of this period carried a single constant signature — Mamalepot held the senior position throughout the entire run while the countersignatory changed six times across eight dated issues. That pattern reflects genuine institutional turbulence within the bank's governance structure during the 1990s, not routine rotation.
P#201E circulated across six member states of the CEMAC zone simultaneously, each accepting the same physical note regardless of which country's central bank branch had issued it — a monetary arrangement with few direct parallels in postcolonial Africa.