Catalog
10 000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale du Mali |
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| Year | 1972-1984 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE DU MALI DIX MILLE FRANCS (Translation: Central Bank of Mali Ten Thousand Francs) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE DU MALI LES AUTEURS OU COMPLICES DE FALSIFICATION OU DE CONTREFAÇON DE BILLETS DE BANQUE SERONT PUNIS CONFORMÉMENT AUX LOIS ET ACTES EN VIGUEUR. (Translation: Central Bank of Mali The authors or accomplices of falsification or counterfeiting of bank notes will be punished in accordance with the laws and acts in force.) |
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Mali withdrew from the West African Monetary Union in 1962, briefly operating its own franc before a disastrous attempt at monetary independence forced a humiliating return to the CFA franc zone in 1984. This note belongs to the intervening period — the Malian franc years — when the Banque Centrale du Mali issued currency outside the BCEAO system entirely. The arrangement required printing contracts with outside suppliers, and the Banque de France obliged.
The series ran twelve years, an unusually long lifespan for a high-denomination note in a country experiencing chronic inflation and import difficulties throughout the 1970s.