Catalog
1000 Francs CFA
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest |
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| Year | 2003-2025 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Red-brown on red and multicolour underprint. Central vignette of a tall West African carved mask flanked by symbolic objects including a globe, open book, mortar and pestle, and a caduceus. Denomination '1000' appears in large numerals at left and right, with issuer name in vertical lettering and country code letter at lower right. |
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| Variants | P#815Ta - (20)03 P#815Tb - (20)04 P#815Tg - (20)08 P#815Th - (20)09 P#815Ti - (20)10 P#815Tj - (20)11 P#815Tl - (20)12 P#815Tm - (20)13 P#815Tn - (20)14 P#815To - (20)15 P#815Tp - (20)16 P#815Tq - (20)17 P#815Tr - (20)18 |
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The BCEAO's long-running note series for the eight-member UEMOA zone generates an unusually dense signature matrix precisely because the two signatories represent different offices — the national finance minister of the rotating presidency country, and the BCEAO Governor — meaning the combination changes whenever either post turns over. This particular denomination has cycled through more than a dozen pairings across a run still technically active after two decades, which creates substantial variety for date-and-signature collectors working within what appears, superficially, to be a single note type.
The CFA franc itself has been pegged to the French franc, and since 2002 to the euro at a fixed rate of 655.957, a monetary arrangement dating to 1948 that remains politically contentious across the zone.