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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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| Shape | Rectangular |
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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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| Signature(s) | 2003 - Ayawovi Demba Tignokpa and Charles Konan Banny 2004 - Ayawovi Demba Tignokpa and Charles Konan Banny 2008 - Charles Koffi Diby and Philippe-Henri Dacoury-Tabley 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 2018 - Amadou Ba and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné |
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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.