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2500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest |
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| Year | 1992-1994 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Deep purple and dark brown on lilac and multicolour underprint. Hydroelectric dam vignette at centre, portrait of a young woman at right. Guilloche patterning frames the central design with issuer title across the top. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 2500 Francs denomination is an oddity in the BCEAO series — a non-dyadic value that appears nowhere else in the standard West African currency structure. It was introduced in 1992 as a transitional measure ahead of the January 1994 CFA Franc devaluation, the single largest adjustment to the currency since its creation, when France halved the franc's parity with the CFA overnight. Notes dated 1994 were effectively already obsolete on arrival.
Alassane Ouattara signed across all three years represented — he was BCEAO Governor before becoming Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire, a career trajectory that gives this otherwise short-lived series an unusual political footnote.