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Upper Senegal and Niger

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Upper Senegal and Niger is located in Western Africa, the territory called French Sudan after WWI, and today called Mali. It has been under French rule since 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

B101p (
  • P-1ct
) 0.50 Franc Dark Brown, Louis-Oscar Roty's Sower
Dark Brown, Gray-Green.
  • Printer: Gouv't Gén'al
  • 2/11/1917
  • Unissued
B102a (
  • LK379b
  • P-1a
) 0.50 Franc Brown, Louis-Oscar Roty's Sower
Brown, Tan.
  • Printer: Gouv't Gén'al
  • 2/11/1917
  • Series A.1-J.100

  • Watermark: Laurel leaf pattern
B102b (
  • LK379a
) 0.50 Franc Brown, Louis-Oscar Roty's Sower
  • 1919
  • Series K.1-T.100
  • Watermark: none

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