Dahomey

Ivory Coast is located on the West African coast and has been under French rule since the 1894. From 1895, the territories within French West Africa used common bankotes issued by Banque du Senegal. In 1917, low denomination emergency notes were issued within each territory using the same design but different colors and local colony names overprinted.

Gouvernement Général de l’Afrique Occidentale Française

Founded in 1895, this was the issuing authority for the territories in French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française, AOF) which includes Ivory Coast, Dahomey, French Guinea, French Sudan, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Upper Volta.

1917 Emergency Issues

B101a (
  • LK372a
  • P-1a
) 0.50 Franc Orange, Louis-Oscar Roty's Sower
Orange, yellow, black.
  • Printer: Gouv't Gén'al
  • 2/11/1917
  • s/n 4.5mm tall

  • Watermark: Bee pattern
B101b (
  • LK372b
  • P-1a
) 0.50 Franc Orange, Louis-Oscar Roty's Sower
  • 2/11/1917
  • s/n 3.5mm tall
B101c (
  • LK372c
  • P-1b
) 0.50 Franc Orange, Louis-Oscar Roty's Sower
  • 2/11/1917
  • Watermark: Laurel leaves
B102a (
  • LK373a
  • P-2a
) 1 Franc Green, Louis-Oscar Roty's Sower
Orange, yellow, black.
  • Printer: Gouv't Gén'al
  • 2/11/1917
  • s/n 4.5mm tall
B102b (
  • LK373b
  • P-2a
) 1 Franc Green, Louis-Oscar Roty's Sower
  • 2/11/1917
  • s/n 3.5mm tall
B102c (
  • LK373c
  • P-2b
) 1 Franc Green, Louis-Oscar Roty's Sower
  • 2/11/1917
  • Watermark: Laurel leaves

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