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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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| Size | 196 × 107 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | 5000 | Cinq Mille Francs | 5000 CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D`OUTRE-MER Martinique (Translation: Martinique Central Fund of Overseas France Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labor those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorized by law.) |
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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High-denomination CCFOM notes from this transitional period were frequently overstamped or withdrawn by successor authorities within a year of issue.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.