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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Nationale - République de Djibouti |
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| Year | 1979-2005 |
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| Value | 5000 Francs |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio print on a multicolour guilloche underprint with black serial numbers. A left-facing male portrait vignette appears at the lower right, with a background scene of a forest and children running. Inscriptions in French and Arabic appear across the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | ۵۰۰۰ جمهورية جيبوتي البنك الوطني 5000 CINQ MILLE FRANCS SERONT PUNIS DES TRAVAUX FORCES LES CONTREFACTEURS ET CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT USAGE DES BILLETS CONTREFAIT (Translation: Republic of Djibouti. National Bank. Five thousand francs. The counterfeiters and those who have used counterfeit notes will be punished with forced labor.) |
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The Banque de France printed this series for Djibouti across a remarkably long production run — the same basic design circulated from 1979 well into the 2000s, an unusually stable arrangement for a denomination of this size. Djibouti's small population and heavily dollarized economy meant turnover was slow, which kept the pressure to redesign low.
The 5000-franc note represented a significant sum in daily use — roughly equivalent to a week's wages for many workers during the 1980s and 1990s. Heavily circulated examples from the earlier dates tend to show pronounced wear along the vertical fold lines.