Catalog
500 Francs CFA
| Issuer | Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest |
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| Year | 2012-2025 |
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| Reference(s) | P#719K |
| Obverse description | Brown and orange multicolor note with a central intaglio vignette of a stylized West African tribal mask in brown tones. Bank title BANQUE CENTRALE DES ÉTATS DE L'AFRIQUE DE L'OUEST appears vertically at left; denomination 500 printed at top left and right. A holographic foil patch is visible at lower right. |
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| Signature(s) | 2012 - Tiena Coulibaly and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné 2013 - Tiena Coulibaly and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné 2014 - Tiena Coulibaly and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné 2015 - Gilles Baillet and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné 2016 - Saïdou Sidibé and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné 2017 - Amadou Ba and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné 2018 - Amadou Ba and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné |
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The CFA franc zone has used the same basic 500-franc note design for decades, but this iteration — Pick 719K — represents the latest plate iteration within a long-running series managed jointly by BCEAO for eight West African member states: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo. The letter suffix "K" designates the issuing state, in this case Senegal.
Six different signature combinations appear across the 2012–2018 date span, reflecting genuine personnel changes at the BCEAO's senior level rather than a redesign. Tiémoko Meyliet Koné held the governorship throughout, providing continuity across five different counterpart signatories on the left field.