Catalog
1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest |
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| Year | 1991-2002 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown-violet on tan, yellow and multicolour underprint. Central vignette shows workmen hauling peanuts to storage; woman's head at right serves as the principal portrait. Guilloche patterning frames the design with characteristic BCEAO security underprint elements. |
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| Signature(s) | 1991 - Ildephonse Lemon and Alassane Ouattara 1992 - Frédéric Korsaga and Alassane Ouattara 1993 - Roch Marc Kaboré and Alassane Ouattara 1994 - Roch Marc Kaboré and Charles Konan Banny 1995 - Soumaïla Cissé and Charles Konan Banny 1996 - Niamien N'Goran and Charles Konan Banny 1997 - Niamien N'Goran and Charles Konan Banny 1998 - Niamien N'Goran and Charles Konan Banny 1999 - Idé Gnandou and Charles Konan Banny 2000 - Abdoulaye Diop and Charles Konan Banny 2001 - Abdoulaye Diop and Charles Konan Banny 2002 - Kossi Assimaidou and Charles Konan Banny 2003 - Kossi Assimaidou and Charles Konan Banny |
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The BCEAO's long-running 1000 Francs series is as much an administrative record as a banknote. The signature combinations across twelve successive years reflect the rotating ministerial appointments of eight different member states — the left-hand signatory changes almost annually, cycling through finance ministers from Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, and Côte d'Ivoire, while Charles Konan Banny's tenure as BCEAO Governor held the right-hand field from 1994 through 2003, providing unusual continuity across a turbulent decade for the CFA zone.
Alassane Ouattara's appearance on early issues — he held the governorship before departing to serve as Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire in 1990 — makes the 1991–1993 dates particularly notable for collectors tracking his political trajectory before he eventually became president.