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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française et du Cameroun |
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| Year | 1957 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (1945-1960) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio vignette at centre of a young African woman in traditional dress and headwrap, holding a wicker basket filled with cocoa pods, with cocoa tree branches visible to the right. The denomination '1000' appears in large numerals at upper left and upper right, with the title inscription along the top margin and 'MILLE FRANCS' in bold letttering across the upper centre. Two facsimile signatures of Le Président and Le Directeur Général appear above the central vignette, with serial number and series prefix printed in black at the corners. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette of a bare-chested African man tending cotton plants in an open landscape, with bolls of cotton rendered in fine detail across the foreground and a rocky plateau visible in the distance under a pale sky. The denomination '1000' appears at upper left and upper right flanking the title inscription, while geometric guilloche borders with triangular motifs frame the left and right edges of the note. The anti-counterfeiting legal warning appears in a text panel at lower left. |
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The Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française et du Cameroun was a short-lived monetary authority, established in 1955 to manage currency for the four territories of French Equatorial Africa — Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, and Ubangi-Shari — alongside Cameroun under a single unified framework. It was already an institution operating on borrowed time: decolonization was accelerating, and by 1960 each territory would be managing its own monetary arrangements through successor bodies.
Banque de France printing at this date guaranteed a high standard of intaglio work. The 1957 issue was among the final emissions under this authority before the political reorganization swept the framework away entirely.