5000 Francs

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.