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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 | Multicolor intaglio vignette with a native woman holding a fruit bowl at center right, palm trees at left, set against a tropical landscape underprint. The denomination numerals appear at the upper corners, with the issuing authority inscription across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | CINQ MILLE FRANCS CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER Guadeloupe L'ART 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS À PERPÉTUITÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI (Translation: Five Thousand Francs Central Fund of Overseas France Guadeloupe Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labor in perpetuity those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorized by law.) |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was a Paris-based institution responsible for currency supply across French overseas territories — not a colonial central bank in any sovereign sense, but a metropolitan tool for managing monetary circulation in territories undergoing rapid political change. By 1960, many of those territories were months away from independence, and notes of this denomination were already being displaced by newly created national currencies across West and Central Africa.
High-denomination issues from this final period tend to surface in lighter circulated grades; the transition to successor currencies was fast enough that larger values often sat in institutional hands rather than moving through trade.