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French West Africa banknotes
French West Africa money catalog and French West African currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Franc = 100 Centimes

• For other issues see:
  • Benin, 1917
  • French Sudan, 1917
  • Ivory Coast, 1917, 1943
  • Senegal, till 1917
• For later issues after 1958 see:
  • West African States (Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo)
  • Guinea, from 1958
  • Mali, from 1960
  • Mauritania, from1973

• To purchase French West African banknotes, please check our inventory :
  World banknotes countries A-Z

Pick #	Date
		French Colony (from 1958; Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo)
5-15	1904-29	5, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 francs; issued in Conakry, Dakar, Duala, Grand-Bassam, Porto-Novo or St.Louis
21-24	1934-45	5, 25, 100, 1.000 francs
25-27	1941-43	5, 5, 25 francs
28-32	1942-43	5, 10, 25, 100, 1.000 francs
33-35	(1944)	0.50, 1, 2 francs
36-43	1943-55	5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000 francs
44-48	1955-56	50, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 francs