Catalog
10000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest |
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| Year | 1992-2001 |
| Type | Trial banknote |
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| Reverse description | Native art mask vignette at left; woman crossing a vine bridge over a river at centre, rendered in detailed intaglio engraving against a multicolour guilloche underprint. |
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| Signature(s) | 1992 - Roch Marc Kaboré and Alassane Ouattara 1994 - Soumaïla Cissé and Charles Konan Banny 1995 - Soumaïla Cissé and Charles Konan Banny 1996 - Niamien N'Goran and Charles Konan Banny 1997 - Niamien N'Goran and Charles Konan Banny 1998 - Niamien N'Goran and Charles Konan Banny 1998 - Idé Gnandou and Charles Konan Banny 1999 - Idé Gnandou and Charles Konan Banny 2000 - Abdoulaye Diop and Charles Konan Banny 2001 - Abdoulaye Diop and Charles Konan Banny |
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The BCEAO's 10,000 franc denomination is the highest in the West African CFA franc series, and the signature parade on this type tells a compressed political history of the zone. Alassane Ouattara — whose 1992 signature appears here as BCEAO Governor — had already served as Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire and would later become its president after years of contested electoral exclusions. Charles Konan Banny, whose name runs through nearly the entire issue span, went the other direction: BCEAO Governor until 2005, then appointed Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire during the transitional government following the First Ivorian Civil War.
The 1994 signature combination marks the year of the CFA franc's single most significant monetary event in decades — the 50% devaluation against the French franc, the first adjustment since 1948.