Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5000 Francs
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission d'Outre-Mer |
|---|---|
| Year | 1971-1985 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 5000 Francs |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | INSTITUT D'ÉMISSION D`OUTRE MER RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE LE PRÉSIDENT DU CONSEIL DE SURVEILLANCE LE DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL LE DIRECTEUR CINQ MILLE FRANCS (Translation: Overseas Emission Institute French Republic Five Thousand Francs) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 5000 | INSTITUT D'ÉMISSION | 5000 D`OUTRE MER PAPEETE L`ARTICLE 409 DU CODE PENAL PUNIT DE LA RECLUSION CRIMINELLE A PERPETUITE CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIE LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISES PAR LA LOI (Translation: Overseas Emission Institute Papeete Article 409 of the penal code punishes with perpetual criminal reclusion those who counterfeit or falsify bank notes authorized by law.) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Institut d'Émission d'Outre-Mer was a Paris-based institution created in 1966 to manage currency for French overseas territories in the Pacific — New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna — after those functions were separated from the Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer. The IEOM held a monopoly on note issuance across all three territories despite their considerable geographic dispersal and distinct economic profiles, which meant a single series had to function across island groups separated by thousands of kilometres.
Printed by the Banque de France across a fourteen-year span, the series shows only minor sequential variation — collectors tracking prefix and signature combinations will find more distinctions than the face values suggest.