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100 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de la République du Mali |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Brown intaglio print on a pale guilloche underprint with repeated "CENT FRANCS" and "100" inscriptions along the borders. A central oval vignette contains a finely engraved pastoral scene of a herd of zebu cattle with a tree in the background. The denomination tablet "CENT FRANCS" appears in a ruled panel at the bottom centre. |
| Reverse lettering | 100 100 100 CENT FRANCS 100 (Translation: One Hundred Francs) |
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Mali's 1960 independence from French West Africa required an immediate break from the CFA franc system, and the new republic moved quickly — this note was among the first issued under the Banque de la République du Mali before the country briefly rejoined the West African monetary union years later. The choice of printer is striking: Státní Tiskárna Cenin in Prague was a Czechoslovak state security printer, and its selection by a newly independent Francophone African state signals the non-aligned political maneuvering common among post-colonial governments seeking to distance themselves from French institutional dependencies.
Mali eventually abandoned its own currency in 1967, making this entire series short-lived.