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The franc (/ f r æ ŋ k /; French: franc français, [fʁɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ]; sign: F or Fr), [n 2] also commonly distinguished as the French franc (FF), was a currency of France.Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money.
The CFP franc is also issued in New Caledonia, and was used in the New Hebrides until 1982 after its 1980 re-establishment as the Republic of Vanuatu. Since 1985, CFP franc banknotes have been issued common to both French Polynesia and New Caledonia, although separate coinages continued until they were replaced with a single common set of CFP ...
The piastre de commerce ("trade piastre") was the currency of French Indochina between 1887 and 1954. It was first used in 1885. It was subdivided into 100 cents, each of 2~6 sapèques.
The obverse side, common to both regions, included the words Republique Français (lit. ' French Republic ') and depicted an allegorical representation of Minerva the goddess of wisdom on the 1, 2, and 5 franc coins, or Marianne, symbol of the French Republic, on the higher denominations. The obverse also included the mint year and the initials ...
Portrait of Marianne, the symbol of the first French Republic. €0.10 €0.20 €0.50 Link to file: Link to file: 1999–2023: The sower, a theme maintained from the former franc. 2024–: The sower; Simone Veil. 1999–2023: The sower, a theme maintained from the former franc. 2024–: The sower; Josephine Baker
The franc is any of various units of currency.One franc is typically divided into 100 centimes.The name is said to derive from the Latin inscription francorum rex (King of the Franks) used on early French coins and until the 18th century, or from the French franc, meaning "frank" (and "free" in certain contexts, such as coup franc, "free kick").
The Bank of France (French: Banque de France [bɑ̃k də fʁɑ̃s], the name used by the bank to refer to itself in all English communications) is the national bank of France and the French member bank of the Eurosystem. It was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800 as a private-sector corporation with unique public status.
French Cochinchina 50 Cents 1879 French Cochinchina 2 Sapèques 1879. Between 1878 and 1885, the Cochinchina piastre was the currency of the French colony of Cochinchina.It was replaced by the French Indochinese piastre after the creation of a unified administration for Cochinchina and the other French protectorates and colonies in the Far East (Annam, Cambodia and Tonkin) on 22 December 1885.