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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale États de l'Afrique Équatoriale |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (Central bank of Equatorial African States and Cameroon, 1961-1973) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE MILLE FRANCS 1000 (Translation: Central Bank, One Thousand Francs) |
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| Variants | P#5a - Engraved. Code letter A (Chad). Block #1-5 P#5b - Engraved. Code letter B (Central African Republic). Block #1-5 P#5c - Engraved. Code letter C (Congo). Block #1-5 P#5d - Engraved. Code letter D (Gabon). Block #1-5 P#5e - Lithographed. Code letter A (Chad). Block #7- P#5f - Lithographed. Code letter B (Central African Republic). Block #7- P#5g - Lithographed. Code letter C (Congo). Block #7- P#5h - Lithographed. Code letter D (Gabon). Block #7- |
| Comments |
The Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique Équatoriale was a transitional institution — it served the newly independent states of the former French Equatorial Africa during the brief window before each country established its own central bank or joined the reconstituted BEAC arrangement. This 1963 issue falls squarely in that interregnum, circulating across Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, and the Central African Republic under a shared monetary framework inherited almost intact from the colonial Caisse Centrale.
Printed by the Banque de France in Paris, the note continued the French metropolitan printing relationship that persisted well into the post-independence decade — a financial dependency that drew periodic criticism from the governments it supplied.