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| French Pacific Territories banknotes 5000 Francs banknote of 1996 |
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| French Pacific Territories paper money 5000 Francs banknote of 1996 |
These notes are circulated in New Caledonia, Tahiti and all other French Pacific Territories in the Pacific.
French Pacific Territories banknotes, French Pacific Territories paper money, French Pacific Territories bank notes.
Obverse: Portrait of French navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville on the right. View of a flotilla of schooners and three masts in the center. Sextant and stern of the ship on the right.
Reverse: Traditional Outrigger Sailing Canoe on the Isle of Pines at center, bust of the French Admiral Augustus Febvrier-Despointes - first commandant of New Caledonia 1853-1854, New Caledonian flowers at left.
Watermark: Head of a woman in profile, wearing the Phrygian cap and directed to a superposition of the letters RF.
Watermark: Head of a woman in profile, wearing the Phrygian cap and directed to a superposition of the letters RF.