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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des Comores |
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| Year | 2006-2025 |
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| Value | 5000 Francs |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Saïd Mohamed Cheikh at center, with a vignette of Mount Karthala volcano on Grande Comore to the left. The date appears at right and the denomination at lower center, surrounded by decorative guilloche patterns. Comorian-language verse from the poem "Destinée" by Mbaye Trambwe runs along the upper and lower borders. |
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| Reverse description | A mature tree on a coastal beach forms the central vignette, rendered in warm tones against a decorative guilloche underprint. An excerpt from the poem "Destinée" by Mbaye Trambwe appears in French along the border, with Arabic script and the denomination "٥٠٠٠" also present. An anti-counterfeiting warning in French runs along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | ٥٠٠٠ LES AUTEURS OU COMPLICES DE FALSIFICATION OU DE CONTREFAÇON DE BILLETS DE BANQUE SERONT PUNIS CONFORMÉMENT AUX LOIS ET ACTES EN VIGUEUR البنك المركزى القمرى خمسة آلاف فرنك JEUNESSE VOUS ME TOURMENTEZ. VOUS VOUS JOIGNEZ À CEUX QUI ME HARCÈLENT. J'ÉTAIS UN ARBRE FLEURI ET LES OISEAUX L'ONT PICORÉ. J'ÉTAIS UN ARBRE FRUITIER ET LES HOMMES SE SONT SERVIS J'AVAIS UN BEL ASPECT, JE L'AI PERDU J'ÉTAIS LE BIEN AIMÉ, JE SUIS DEVENU LE MAL AIMÉ. (Translation: 5000, The authors or accomplices of falsification or counterfeiting of banknotes will be punished in accordance with the laws and acts in force. Central Bank of the Comoros, Five Thousand Francs. Youth you torment me. You join those who harass me. I was a flowering tree and the birds pecked it. I was a fruit tree and men helped themselves. I had a good look, I lost it. I was the beloved, I have become the unloved.) |
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