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500 Francs Duala
| Uitgever | Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale |
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| Jaar | 1921 |
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| Waarde | 500 Francs |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Central vignette of a hexagonal blank reserve flanked by tall palm trees and a large elephant at left and a baobab tree at right, rendered in blue intaglio on an orange-brown underprint. The denomination "500" appears in each corner, with the bank title and value inscription across the upper portion and the black overprint "DUALA" at centre below the date. Two manuscript signatures appear beneath the titles "Le Président" and "L'Administrateur-Directeur". |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | BANQUE DE L'AFRIQUE OCCIDENTALE Cinq Cents Francs PAYABLES EN ESPÈCES, À VUE, AU PORTEUR DUALA Le Président L'Administrateur-Directeur H. Bellery Desfontaines del. ERNEST ET FRÉDÉRIC FLORIAN SC. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale, despite its name, also held the note-issuing privilege for French Equatorial Africa and French Cameroun — Duala being the commercial capital of the latter. This note circulating in Cameroun is a consequence of the post-WWI mandate arrangements, when France assumed administration of the former German Kamerun colony and extended the BAO's franchise accordingly.
Bellery-Desfontaines was primarily an illustrator and poster artist, better known for his Art Nouveau commercial work than for banknote design. His involvement here is unusual. The Florian brothers — Frédéric and Ernest-Théophile — handled engraving for multiple Banque de France productions in this period.