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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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| Value | 1000 Francs CFA CFA (1000 XOF) |
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| Reverse description | Red-brown on multicolour underprint. Central vignette of two dromedary camels, one standing and one resting, set against a desert landscape with rocky outcrops. Geometric guilloche borders frame the design at top and bottom; issuer name in vertical text at left and 'B.C.E.A.O.' in bold letters at right. |
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| Protection description | the BCEAO symbol visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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| Comments |
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.