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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale - République Gabonaise |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Value | 1.000 Francs |
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| Reverse description | At left, a large African elephant stands in the foreground rendered in intaglio in violet-purple tones, with a savannah landscape behind showing giraffes, antelope, and lush vegetation extending toward a distant waterway. At right, a traditional carved anthropomorphic wooden statue is set against an ornate guilloche border with geometric patterning in pink and violet. The issuer's name is printed in two lines across the top centre. |
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| Protection description | the head of a lion or similar motif visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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The Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale — the common central bank shared by Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon — issued notes with country-specific designations on a shared regional framework tied to the CFA franc, itself pegged to the French franc at a fixed rate of 50:1 from 1948 until the 1994 devaluation. Gabon's national designation distinguished its notes for domestic use, though the CFA zone meant these circulated freely across member states in practice.
Banque de France printing at Chamalières was standard for francophone African CFA notes throughout this period, a contractual arrangement that persisted well after independence.