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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des Comores |
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| Year | 2005-2020 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue and multicolour note with an intaglio-printed vignette of a coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) at left centre, rendered in fine engraved detail against a guilloche underprint in shades of blue and orange. The denomination numeral "1000" appears in large dark blue figures at lower left and upper right, with two authorising signatures and their titles printed at lower right. A decorative rosette in red and white is set at centre right, accompanied by verse text in French at lower left. |
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| Signature(s) | Le Président du Conseil d'Administration / Le Gouverneur Le Président du Conseil d'Administration / P/Le Gouverneur - Le Vice-Gouverneur Imani / Rioux |
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Roger Pfund's involvement is worth noting — the Swiss designer and engraver brought a distinctly fine-art sensibility to banknote work, and his commissions through Banque de France printing were relatively selective. The Comoros 1000 Francs belongs to a long-running series that has seen multiple signature combinations across its print life, reflecting administrative turnover within the Banque Centrale rather than any reissue of the underlying design.
The franc comorien has been pegged to the euro at a fixed rate since 1999, inheriting the earlier peg to the French franc — which is precisely why Banque de France continues to handle production decades after formal monetary ties to France loosened elsewhere.