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40 Francs Pattern
| Issuer | Banque d'Émission de l'Afrique Centrale |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | AFRIQUE CENTRALE (Translation: Central Africa) |
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| Mintage | ND (1958) - - 33 |
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The Banque d'Émission de l'Afrique Centrale was itself a transitional institution, created in 1955 to manage currency across French Equatorial Africa as the colonial framework began its slow unraveling. By 1958 — the year de Gaulle's new constitution reshaped French overseas territories into the Community — a 40-franc denomination made little practical sense, and this pattern was never adopted. The CFA franc system that followed rendered the entire Banque d'Émission apparatus obsolete within a few years.
Lec#25 is the standard reference for this piece among pattern collectors working the French colonial series.