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French Sudan

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French Sudan is located in Western Africa, and today called Mali. It has been under French rule since the 1880.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 (
  • P-1
) 0.50 Franc Orange, Louis-Oscar Roty's Sower
Orange, yellow, black.
  • Printer: Gouv't Gén'al
  • 2/11/1917

  • Watermark: Bee pattern
B101b (
  • P-1
) 0.50 Franc Orange, Louis-Oscar Roty's Sower
  • 2/11/1917
  • Watermark: Laurel leaf pattern

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