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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale - République Fédérale du Cameroun |
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| Year | 1962 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio-printed note with a central vignette of a man wearing a hat and carrying a large woven basket on his head, set against a background of lush cocoa trees laden with pods at left. Geometric African-motif guilloche borders frame the note on both lateral edges. Denomination numerals '1000' appear in the upper corners, with 'BANQUE CENTRALE' at top centre and 'MILLE FRANCS' in a panel at lower centre; two manuscript signatures appear at centre left above their respective titles. |
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| Variants | P#12a - Issued note. Engraved. P#12b - Issued note. Lithographic. P#12s - Specimen. |
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The Banque Centrale de la République Fédérale du Cameroun came into being following the 1961 reunification of French Cameroun and the formerly British-administered Southern Cameroons — a political union that created the Federal Republic and required its own distinct issuing authority, separate from the CFA franc institutions that had served French Cameroun alone. This note belongs to that transitional federal period, before the 1972 referendum abolished the federal structure entirely and replaced it with the Unitary Republic.
Printed by the Banque de France in Paris, which handled production for numerous Francophone African issuers during this period. Pick 12 is among the earlier issues of the federal series and is considerably harder to locate than later replacements.