Catalog
5000 Francs
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission des Comores |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a Comorian man wearing a turban and a woman in a headscarf, both in traditional dress, set against a watermark oval at right. To the left, a vignette of a colonial-style building with dhows and small boats moored along the waterfront. The denomination "CINQ MILLE FRANCS" appears in red at the lower left, with two signature facsimiles and their respective titles below the central portrait group. A decorative guilloche border frames the entire note. |
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| Obverse lettering | INSTITUT D'ÉMISSION DES COMORES CINQ MILLE FRANCS |
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The Institut d'Émission des Comores had a brief operational life — it was established following the unilateral declaration of independence in 1975 and was soon superseded by the Banque Centrale des Comores after 1981. Notes issued under this authority occupy a narrow window in Comorian monetary history, during a period of considerable political instability that included a mercenary coup led by Bob Denard in 1975.
Banque de France printing for a former French territory was standard post-independence arrangement, not an anomaly. Pick 9 is the highest denomination of the series.