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1000 Francs CFA
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest |
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| Year | 2003-2024 |
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| Value | 1000 Francs CFA CFA (1000 XOF) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE DES ÉTATS DE L'AFRIQUE DE L'OUEST 1000 MILLE FRANCS CFA |
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| Signature(s) | 2003 - Ayawovi Demba Tignokpa and Charles Konan Banny 2004 - Ayawovi Demba Tignokpa and Charles Konan Banny 2006 - Grégoire Laourou and Charles Konan Banny 2007 - Jean-Baptiste Compaoré and Damo Justin Baro 2008 - Jean-Baptiste Compaoré and Damo Justin Baro 2009 - Charles Koffi Diby and Philippe-Henri Dacoury-Tabley 2010 - José Mário Vaz and Philippe-Henri Dacoury-Tabley 2011 - José Mário Vaz and Jean-Baptiste Compaoré 2012 - Lassine Bouaré and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné 2013 - Tiena Coulibaly and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné 2014 - Tiena Coulibaly and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné 2015 - Gilles Baillet and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné 2016 - Saïdou Sidibé and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné 2017 - Amadou Ba and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné |
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The West African CFA franc is managed collectively by eight member states through the BCEAO, which means the Minister of Finance signatory on any given note reflects whichever country held the rotating presidency of the Council of Ministers that year — not a fixed national authority. This produces the unusually long sequence of signature combinations seen across this series, with some pairings lasting a single year.
The franc CFA's fixed peg to the euro — inherited from its earlier peg to the French franc at 100:1 before the 1994 devaluation halved its value overnight — has made this denomination one of the more stable in sub-Saharan Africa, though that 1994 shock remains a reference point in regional monetary history. The 50% devaluation of January 11-12, 1994 was the largest single adjustment in the currency's post-war history.