Product Description
TBB.B123 - P117Aa - 5,000 francs - Date: 2003 - Grade: UNC - Sign. 32 - (Ayaovi Tignopka/Charles Konan Banny) - Description: Colour: Green, blue, yellow, brown, and orange. Front: French text; denomination as registration device; sawfish figurine; aerial view of irrigated rice fields; banana trees. Back: French text; two Buffon’s Kob antelopes (Kobus Kob Kob), one kneeling and one standing in savanna; penal code. 8-mm wide windowed holographic stripe with sawfish, BCEAO and 5000. 1-mm wide solid security thread with printed UMOA 5000. Watermark: Sawfish and electrotype 5000. Printer: (François-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire) - Size:141 x 74 mm. - Material: Paper.
2003 - 2020 Issues
On these notes, the country code appears after the serial number at lower left front and upper right front. Furthermore, the first two digits of the serial number represent the last two digits of the year of introduction, and the next two digits are a numeric code unique to the given country. The vertical dates which appear on the backs of these notes represent the first year in which these new designs were issued. The backs of the 1,000-, 2,000-, and 5,000-franc notes have a vertical pearlescent stripe with repeating denomination numerals. Beginning with these issues, the variety lettering is consistent across all countries and denominations (other than 500 francs). For example, all notes dated 2009 have the variety letter h, although not every denomination was issued in 2009 for every country. Unconfirmed varieties are indicated as such and may not exist. The stylized sawfish on the front of every note is the BCEAO’s symbol of the CFA franc, chosen because of the sawfish’s
mythological value of prosperity and fecundity in West Africa. This particular figure is a bronze weight formerly used by the Akan and Baoule tribes for commercial exchanges of gold powder.
