Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de la République du Mali |
|---|---|
| Year | 1967 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited, London, United Kingdom |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Purple on multicolour underprint, with a guilloche-enriched background. An intaglio portrait vignette of President Modibo Keita occupies the right portion of the face, while a vignette of the Markala dam on the Niger River is rendered at left. Denomination text and issuer legend appear across the upper and lower registers. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Purple on pale underprint. The central vignette presents an intaglio view of the Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu, its characteristic mud-brick minaret and surrounding structures extending across the composition. A Tuareg woman in traditional dress and ornate jewellery stands in the right foreground, with denomination numerals at each corner and guilloche rosettes flanking a geometric diamond motif on the left border. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Mali's 1967 note issue came just six years after independence and only two years after the country had withdrawn from the West African Monetary Union, severing its franc from the CFA zone to pursue a sovereign currency. That experiment ultimately failed — the Malian franc was devalued repeatedly, and Mali re-entered the BFCEAO framework in 1984.
Thomas De La Rue's contract for this series reflects a common pattern among Francophone African states that, despite political distance from France, still sourced security printing from non-French Western firms rather than the Banque de France's own printing house.