5 francs type 1943 CCFO

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Pick: #15 , The Banknote Book: B401 , Other: #LK515

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Description

French Equatorial Africa (FEA). Central Bank of Overseas France (CCFO). No date (1943). Work by Edmund Dulac. Dimensions: 114 x 73 mm. Printer: Bradbury and Wilkinson of London. Banknote without watermark. No security thread. Front and back: printing in orange and red with a security background composed of geometric patterns repeated continuously. On the front: the value "5" is repeated on the left and right of the note. Numbering printed in dark blue or black or no numbering. Signatures, values ​​and labels are printed in red. In the center, in a dark red oval in the shape of an eye, a portrait of Marianne wearing a Phrygian cap in profile. Marine anchors with cross of Lorraine on both sides of the figure. Three variants of signatures: The Chief Executive Officer and The Chairman of the Supervisory Board. On the back: guillochages in the corners on a pink orange gradient security background and in an oval article 139 of the Penal Code framed by the value "5" repeated on the left and on the right. Ordinance of February 2, 1944. The specimen is known with the signatures of André Duval / James Leclerc, a black “SPÉCIMEN” overprint in diagonal and a perforation “114” upside down. Copy seen: "AL 647,558". Two other specimens signed André Duval / James Leclerc are numbered "AC500,001-AN500,000" and "AN500,001-BN500,000". These have a blue number "12.345" in the upper margin and are perforated horizontally "SPECIMEN" in small characters. A last specimen signed James Leclerc / André Postel-Vinay is numbered in blue "AN000,000".

Banknotes :Central Bank of Overseas France (1943-1953)