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500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale - République du Tchad |
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| Year | 1985-1992 |
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| Size | 150 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a stylised intaglio-engraved African carved wooden figure standing upright, accompanied by a decorative ribbed ceramic jug to its right, set against a warm orange and yellow guilloche underprint with floral rosette patterns. The denomination numeral 500 appears in large format at lower right and upper left, with two signature lines captioned LE GOUVERNEUR and UN CENSEUR at centre right. The date appears at lower left, with the title RÉPUBLIQUE DU TCHAD in letterpress across the top. |
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| Reverse description | Left-centre vignette of an intaglio-engraved seated male artisan working on a traditional African carved mask, surrounded by several finished carved masks of varying styles and sizes arranged before him. An additional carved mask vignette appears at the far right margin. The background carries an intricate multicolour guilloche underprint in orange, gold, and blue tones with geometric and foliate patterns. A legal warning text in French appears in a framed panel at the lower centre. |
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The Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale — known by its French acronym BEAC — serves six member states simultaneously, which means the same base note design circulates across Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon, differentiated only by a letter code and country designation. Chad's issues carry the letter "C" and the République du Tchad overprint. Four signature combinations across this series reflect the high turnover in BEAC governorship and national directorship during the late 1980s, a period of severe fiscal stress in the franc zone compounded by the collapse of commodity export revenues.