Catalog
10000 Francs CFA
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest |
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| Year | 2003-2024 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Green and violet tones; central vignette of two Blue Turaco birds (Musophagidae) perched on a branch, rendered in vivid multicolour intaglio. Vertical guilloche band at left bears the issuer's name; BCEAO monogram and denomination at right with signatures below. |
| Reverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE DES ÉTATS DE L'AFRIQUE DE L'OUEST 10 000 DIX MILLE FRANCS CFA B.C.E.A.O. LE GOUVERNEUR LE PRÉSIDENT DU CONSEIL DES MINISTRES |
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The BCEAO 10,000 franc note is the highest denomination in regular circulation across the eight-member UEMOA zone — Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo — meaning the left signature rotates through the finance ministers of all eight member states while the right signature belongs to the BCEAO Governor alone. The result is an unusually long signature catalogue for a single Pick number, with fifteen documented combinations across this series.
Charles Konan Banny, whose name appears on the earliest dates here, left the governorship in 2005 to become Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire during that country's post-civil war transitional government.