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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale États de l'Afrique Équatoriale |
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| Year | 1963 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE CINQ MILLE FRANCS (Translation: Central Bank, Five Thousand Francs) |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible when held to light, consistent with Banque de France security paper of the period. |
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The Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique Équatoriale was a short-lived institution, operational only from the early 1960s until 1972 when the Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale absorbed its functions following the formal restructuring of the CFA franc zone. This 1963 issue belongs to the earliest phase of that arrangement, when newly independent Cameroon, Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon were still settling into shared monetary structures inherited from the French colonial administration.
Printed by the Banque de France, which retained exclusive contracts for CFA zone currency production well into the postcolonial period — a commercial and political continuity that outlasted the empires that created it.