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500 Francs

Issuer Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française et du Cameroun
Year 1957
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Value 500 Francs (500 FCFA)
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Obverse description Multicolor intaglio print on a guilloche underprint. At left, a portrait vignette of a Bacongo woman in traditional dress and headdress, rendered in fine engraved detail; at center-right, a pastoral village scene with thatched conical huts and trees. Two facsimile signatures appear at upper center, with serial numbers and prefix letters at the four corners.
Obverse lettering INSTITUT D'EMISSION DE L'AFRIQUE ÉQUATORIALE FRANÇAISE ET DU CAMEROUN
CINQ CENTS FRANCS
LE DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL
LE PRÉSIDENT
(Translation: Institute of Emission of French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon / Five Hundred Francs / The Director General / The President)
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