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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale - République Gabonaise |
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| Year | 1986-1992 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | A vignette of carved wooden African figures appears at the left margin, while a central underprint carries a map of the Central African States member countries with the complete outline of Chad rendered in the composition. A portrait of President Omar Bongo Ondimba occupies the right side, set within a guilloche border frame with the denomination and country name inscribed across the upper field. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE DES ÉTATS DE L'AFRIQUE CENTRALE LES AUTEURS OU COMPLICES DE FALSIFICATION OU DE CONTREFAÇON DE BILLETS DE BANQUE SERONT PUNIS CONFORMÉMENT AUX LOIS ACTES EN VIGUEUR. (Translation: BANK OF CENTRAL AFRICAN STATES THE AUTHORS OR ACCOMPLICES OF FALSIFICATION OR COUNTERFEITING OF BANK NOTES WILL BE PUNISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAWS.) |
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The Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale — BEAC — replaced the earlier Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique Équatoriale et du Cameroun in 1972, bringing Gabon, Cameroon, Chad, the Central African Republic, Congo, and later Equatorial Guinea under a single monetary authority tied to the French franc through the CFA franc arrangement. Individual member states received country-specific note issues, identified by a letter code, which is why this note circulates as distinctly Gabonese despite the supranational issuer.
Banque de France handled printing throughout this series — a long-running relationship that kept production technically consistent, if unremarkable in its security architecture. The single watermark feature reflects where BEAC stood at the time, well behind contemporaneous West African issues in counterfeit deterrence.