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100 Francs CFA Essai
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique Équatoriale et du Cameroun |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#E2 |
| Obverse description | Three giant eland (Derby eland) busts in high relief face left in a dynamic, overlapping composition, their elongated spiral horns extending prominently toward the upper field. Stylized savanna grasses are rendered in the lower field beneath the animals, conveying a naturalistic African landscape setting. The engraver's signature G.B.L.BAZOR appears along the right inner border. The curved legend REPUBLIQUE CENTRAFRICAINE arcs along the upper periphery in bold Latin capitals, with the Monnaie de Paris mintmark visible at the base of the design. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique Équatoriale et du Cameroun was itself a transitional institution — it replaced the earlier Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française et du Cameroun following independence, and would later be superseded by the Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale in 1972. This essai was struck just one year before that reorganization, making it one of the final pattern issues produced under the BCEAEC's authority.
Essais from this issuer are typically distributed to member state finance ministries and retained by the mint — Monnaie de Paris in this case — rather than released for circulation.