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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Trésor Public - Territoire Français des Afars et des Issas |
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| Year | 1975 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 5000 TERRITOIRE FRANÇAIS DES AFARS ET ISSAS TRÉSOR PUBLIC خمسة آلاف فرانك CINQ MILLE FRANCS (Translation: French Territory of Affars and Issas. Public treasury. Five thousand francs.) |
| Reverse description | Multicolour intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint. A central aerial view vignette of the city of Djibouti dominates the composition, with a vignette of traditional daggers at left. Inscriptions appear in both French and Arabic. |
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The Territoire Français des Afars et des Issas was the transitional administrative name for what became Djibouti in 1977 — notes bearing this title had a short window of legitimacy before independence rendered them obsolete. Lambert's design was engraved by two of the Banque de France's most prolific intaglio specialists of the period; Jubert and Renaud worked across numerous French colonial and overseas territory issues during the 1960s and 1970s, giving this series a technical quality well above what the territory's size might suggest.
P#35 is the highest denomination in the final TFAI series, and the two-year gap before independence means surviving circulated examples absorbed heavy tropical use.