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500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des Comores |
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| Year | 2006-2020 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Pink and multicolour reverse centred on a large botanical vignette of two orchid varieties — a slender white spider orchid and a vivid magenta bloom with green foliage — rendered in bright offset colour across the full face. The denomination "٥٠٠" appears in Arabic numerals at upper left and lower right within a pink guilloche panel, with the bank title repeated in Arabic script and the value in Arabic along the lower margin. An orange-and-white pinwheel bank emblem is printed at lower left, and a cautionary anti-counterfeiting legend in French appears at centre 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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The Comoros franc is pegged to the euro at a fixed rate inherited from its earlier peg to the French franc, a monetary arrangement that has remained unchanged since 1994 and gives the Banque de France a continued operational role in supplying the archipelago's currency. Printing in metropolitan France for a small Indian Ocean island nation of under a million people is not an anachronism — it reflects an unbroken institutional dependency that predates independence.
P#15 runs across a remarkably long issue window, with the dual-signature variants distinguishing different administrative periods at the Banque Centrale. The Imani/Rioux pairing is among the later combinations in the series.