Catalog
2000 Francs CFA
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest |
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| Year | 2003-2025 |
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| Reference(s) | P#316C |
| Obverse description | Blue on light blue and multicolour underprint. Central vignette of a stylised West African carved mask with braided serpent motif, flanked by guilloche patterns. Right side vignette shows a jet aircraft, locomotive, and port facility; denomination '2000' appears twice in blue intaglio. |
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| Variants | P#316Ca - (20)03 P#316Cb - (20)04 P#316Cc - (20)05 P#316Cd - (20)06 P#316Ce - (20)07 P#316Ch - (20)09 P#316Ci - (20)10 P#316Cj - (20)11 P#316Cl - (20)12 P#316Cm - (20)13 P#316Cn - (20)14 P#316Co - (20)15 P#316Cp - (20)16 P#316Cq - (20)17 |
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The CFA franc zone's monetary governance structure is legible directly on these notes: each signature pair represents a national minister (rotating by member state) countersigning alongside the BCEAO Governor — which is why the minister's name changes so frequently while the Governor's tenure is longer. Banny held the Governorship from 1994 to 2007; Dacoury-Tabley and then Koné succeeded him in turn. José Mário Vaz, who signed in 2010–2011 as Guinea-Bissau's finance minister, later became that country's president in 2014.
The sheer number of signature combinations across this single Pick number makes date identification essential for precise cataloging.