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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Value | 5000 Francs |
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| Obverse description | A vignette at centre-right portrays a young West Indian woman in three-quarter view, wearing a traditional madras headscarf and earring, holding a fruit bowl; to her left, a tropical landscape with palm trees forms the background underprint. The denomination '5000' appears in large numerals at upper left and upper right, with the text 'CINQ MILLE FRANCS' in intaglio script across the centre. The issuing authority 'CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER' is inscribed in bold letterpress across the lower centre, flanked by serial number and series references, with the word 'martinique' repeated in a guilloche band along all four borders. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer occupied an awkward institutional position — a French state body responsible for currency across multiple territories simultaneously, none of which shared the same political trajectory. By 1960, several of those territories were months away from independence, and notes like this one were being issued into economies that were actively dissolving their relationship with the franc zone. The Banque de France printed this series under tight specifications, as it did for most CCFOM issues.
High-denomination CCFOM notes from this transitional period were frequently overstamped or withdrawn by successor authorities within a year of issue. Unmodified examples are the more interesting survivors.