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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de la République du Mali |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Value | 1000 Francs (1000 MLF) |
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| Obverse description | Blue on light-green and orange underprint. Portrait of President Modibo Keita at left, rendered in intaglio against a guilloche underprint; a vignette of farmers plowing the land appears at lower right. The face is framed by ornate lathe-work borders with the denomination and issuing authority inscribed across the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | MILLE FRANCS (Translation: Thousand Francs) |
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Mali's first banknote series was issued immediately following independence from France in September 1960, and the choice of printer was a deliberate political statement. Rather than contracting with the French government printer or the established colonial-era suppliers, the new Malian government turned to Státní Tiskárna Cenin in Prague — a socialist-bloc printer, signaling alignment with the Eastern bloc at a moment when Modibo Keïta's government was pursuing a non-aligned but leftward-leaning foreign policy.
The series was short-lived. Mali rejoined the West African Monetary Union in 1967, rendering these notes obsolete after less than a decade of use.