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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Trésor Public - Territoire Français des Afars et des Issas |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Currency | Afars and Issas Franc (1967-1977) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint with black serial numbers. The central vignette presents an aerial view of the town of Djibouti. Trilingual inscriptions in French, Arabic, and Amharic border the design, with the denomination numeral and issuing authority legend arranged around the vignette; the engravers' and designer's credits appear in the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Territoire Français des Afars et des Issas was the renamed successor to French Somaliland after 1967, when a closely contested referendum — marred by allegations of voter manipulation and mass deportations of Somali residents before the vote — kept the territory under French administration. This note was issued by the Trésor Public rather than a colonial bank, reflecting French metropolitan fiscal control in the transition period before independence in 1977.
Clément Serveau designed extensively for French colonial issues across several decades; Jules Piel and Camille Beltrand were among the most accomplished intaglio engravers working at the Banque de France print works in Paris during the mid-twentieth century.