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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de la République du Mali |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Currency | Franc (1962-1984) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on an uncoloured ground. A large central oval vignette encloses a Sudano-Sahelian architectural facade — likely the Bamako railway station or a prominent public building — flanked by trees, with a busy market scene in the foreground populated by figures, cyclists, and stacked goods. The denomination '5000' appears in each corner within guilloche panels, and the value legend is set in a cartouche along the lower border. |
| Reverse lettering | CINQ MILLE FRANCS (Translation: Five Thousand Francs) |
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Mali's 1960 independence from French West Africa created an immediate problem: the new republic needed its own currency fast, and Western printing houses carried uncomfortable colonial associations. The government turned to Státní Tiskárna Cenin in Prague, then operating firmly within the Eastern Bloc's sphere of commercial relationships with newly independent African states. STC handled several such commissions during this period — Mali was not alone in that choice.
The Banque de la République du Mali itself had a short operational life before the Mali franc collapsed and the country rejoined the West African monetary union in 1967, making the entire P#5 series a product of a currency that lasted less than a decade.