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500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale États de l'Afrique Équatoriale |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Currency | CFA franc (Central bank of Equatorial African States and Cameroon, 1961-1973) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of a young African woman in traditional head wrap occupies the right field, rendered in fine engraved detail against a geometric guilloche border. The central vignette presents an open-cast mining scene with a tracked excavator and ore wagons on rail, flanked at left by a palm tree and pineapple plant. The denomination numeral 500 appears in yellow cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the bank title BANQUE CENTRALE across the top and CINQ CENTS FRANCS in a panel at the base. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE CINQ CENTS FRANCS LE PRÉSIDENT, LE DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL, (Translation: Central Bank, Five Hundred Francs, The President, The General Director) |
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| Reverse lettering | ÉTATS DE L'AFRIQUE ÉQUATORIALE LES AUTEURS OU COMPLICES DE FALSIFICATION OU DE CONTREFAÇON DE BILLETS DE BANQUE SERONT PUNIS CONFORMÉMENT AUX LOIS ET ACTES EN VIGUEUR. (Translation: States of Equatorial Africa. The authors or accomplices of falsification or counterfeiting of banknotes will be punished in accordance with the laws and acts in force.) |
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