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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale - République du Cameroun |
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| Year | 1986-1992 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of President Paul Biya at right, set against a geometric and traditional-motif underprint in blue and ochre tones. At centre, a detailed vignette map of Cameroon overlaid with pictorial vignettes of national resources and landscapes — including elephants, a rhinoceros, oil platforms, traditional dwellings, and a crane in flight — flanked at left by an intaglio rendering of a traditional carved sculpture with a stylised sword. Denomination numeral '1000' appears in both upper corners, with bilingual country title 'RÉPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN / REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON' across the top and 'MILLE FRANCS / ONE THOUSAND FRANCS' in bold lettering at centre. |
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| Reverse description | Bold intaglio vignette of an African elephant at left, rendered in fine line engraving, set within a sweeping savanna landscape populated by giraffes, antelopes, and dense equatorial forest in the background. An ancestral tribal figure carved in stone stands at the far right within a geometric border panel. Decorative guilloche borders in violet and pink frame the composition on all sides, with the denomination '1000' in numerals at lower left and upper right. |
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| Protection description | a sculptural head, visible in the blank oval area on both obverse and reverse |
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