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1000 Francs / 200 Ariary
| Issuer | Banky Foiben'ny Repoblika Malagasy / Banque Centrale de la République Malgache |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of a Malagasy man wearing a traditional wide-brimmed hat at center right, with a Governor's signature above and a small butterfly vignette to the right. At center left, a multicolor floral vignette of tropical orchids is set against a guilloche underprint, while the left panel presents an intaglio vignette of ring-tailed lemurs. Bilingual issuer inscriptions in Malagasy and French appear above the serial number, with the large numeral '1000' and denomination 'ROAN-JATO ARIARY' in bold across the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKY FOIBEN'NY REPOBLIKA MALAGASY / BANQUE CENTRALE DE LA REPUBLIQUE MALGACHE / 1000 / ROAN-JATO ARIARY / LE GOUVERNEUR |
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Madagascar's central bank operated under a bilingual Franco-Malagasy identity throughout the 1970s, and this note reflects the transitional monetary arithmetic of that period — the ariary denomination printed alongside francs was not decorative but functional, the ariary having been established as the unit of account at a fixed rate of 5 francs to 1 ariary. Thomas De La Rue handled the printing, as they did for much of francophone Africa's post-independence currency production.
P#65 belongs to a series that would be superseded relatively quickly as Madagascar moved toward full ariary-only denominations in subsequent decades.