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5000 Ariary
| Issuer | Banky Foiben'i Madagasikara |
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| Year | 2017-2022 |
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| Value | 5000 Ariary |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKY FOIBEN'I MADAGASIKARA 5000 ARIARY DIMY ARIVO ARIARY LE GOUVERNEUR |
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| Protection description | the bank emblem visible when held to light; embedded windowed security thread running vertically; denomination numerals. |
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The 5000 Ariary is among the higher denominations in Madagascar's current polymer-adjacent cotton series, though the island's persistent inflation has steadily eroded its purchasing power — by the early 2020s it was worth roughly the equivalent of a dollar and change. Giesecke & Devrient's Leipzig facility has handled Malagasy currency production for much of the modern period, supplying notes to a central bank that has navigated recurring foreign exchange crises and donor-dependent fiscal cycles since the mid-2000s political rupture that cost Madagascar its AGOA trade eligibility.