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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 description | A young woman in traditional dress occupies the left margin as the primary vignette, rendered in fine intaglio against a richly coloured multicolour underprint. The central scene portrays a rural African landscape with cattle, market figures carrying produce, and thatched village structures, with a mosque-style tower visible in the middle distance. Decorative guilloche borders frame the note at top and bottom, with African masks and ornamental motifs at the upper corners, and the denomination '5000' appears at both upper left and upper right. |
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| Reverse lettering | ÉTATS DE L'AFRIQUE ÉQUATORIALE LES AUTEURS OU COMPLICES DE FALSIFICATION OU DE CONTREFAÇON DE BILLETS DE BANQUE SERONT PUNIS CONFORMÉMENT AUX LOIS ET ACTES EN VIGUEUR. (Translation: States of Equatorial Africa. The authors or accomplices of falsification or counterfeiting of banknotes will be punished in accordance with the laws and acts in force.) |
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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.