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1 January 1960 to 31 December 1998 – Fixed exchange rate with the French franc at F.CFP 1 = NF 0.055 or NF 1 ≈ F.CFP 18.182 (1 January 1960: 100 'old' French francs became 1 'new' franc) 1 January 1999 onward – Fixed exchange rate with the euro at F.CFP 1,000 = €8.38 or €1 ≈ F.CFP 119.332 (1 January 1999: euro replaced FRF at the ...
The Banque de l'Indochine introduced 500 franc notes in 1923, followed by 1000 francs in 1940. Wartime emergency currency was issued during both World War I [3] and World War II [4] in denominations ranging from 25 centimes to 2½ francs. The illustrated notes (right) are from the 1943 issue of Bons de Caisse des Etablissements Français de l ...
The 20 francs features the heads of three zebu cattle facing left. The 50 and 100 francs feature the same design, a Kanak hut surrounded with Cook pines and a palm tree. In September 2021 the IEOM issued a single set of smaller CFP franc coins common to all French Pacific Territories, to replace the two sets of coins used separately for New ...
CFP franc 5,000 CFP francs Reverse 1992–2010 Gabon. Currency: Central African CFA franc (FCFA; since 1945) ... All (10-1,000 francs) Obverse 1960–1963 Kenya
In 1949, the CFP franc's relationship to the French franc stabilized at 5.5 French francs = 1 CFP franc. From 1959, the exchange rate to the Australian pound was almost exactly 200 francs = 1 pound. This rate became 100 francs = 1 Australian dollar in 1966 when the dollar was introduced. The Australian dollar circulated alongside the local ...
The treasury also issued notes that year for 25 up to 1000 francs. In 1800, the Bank of France began issuing notes, first in denominations of 500 and 1000 francs. In the late 1840s, 100 and 200-franc notes were added, while 5, 20 and 50 francs were added in the 1860s and 70s, although the 200-franc note was discontinued.
Building at 115, rue Réaumur in Paris, the head office of IEOM and IEDOM. The Institut d'émission d'outre-mer (IEOM, lit. ' overseas institution of issue ') is a public bank of issue that issues the CFP franc, the currency of the French overseas collectivities French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Wallis and Futuna.
Notes were issued in denominations of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, and 1,000 francs, followed by those of 500 francs in 1949, and 5,000 francs in 1952. In 1957, the Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française et du Cameroun took over paper money production, issuing all of the earlier denominations except for the 500 -franc bill.