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2 Francs
| Issuer | Gouvernement Général de l'Afrique Occidentale Française, Colonie de la Côte d'Ivoire |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 2 Francs |
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| Obverse lettering | GOUVERNEMENT GÉNÉRAL DE L'AFRIQUE OCCIDENTALE FRANÇAISE / COLONIE DE LA CÔTE D'IVOIRE / DEUX FRANCS / Le Trésorier-Payeur. / Le Lt-Gouverneur. / LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ / REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE |
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| Reverse lettering | EXTRAIT DU DÉCRET DU 11 FÉVRIER 1917 / autorisant l'émission du Bons de caisse / EN AFRIQUE OCCIDENTALE FRANÇAISE / CE BON DE CAISSE A COURS FORCÉ DANS TOUTE LA COLONIE / Gorée. — Imp. Gouv. Génal. |
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The wartime rupture in shipping between West Africa and metropolitan France forced French colonial administrations to print their own emergency fractional notes locally rather than wait for Paris. This 2 Francs note was produced at the Imprimerie du Gouvernement Général on the island of Gorée — a government press, not a specialist security printer — which accounts for the relatively modest production standards compared to contemporaneous French colonial issues printed by firms like Chaix or the Banque de France's own workshops.
Côte d'Ivoire issued its own dated series under the broader AOF umbrella rather than relying solely on the Dakar-centered federal notes, a distinction that matters for attribution. Gorée-printed colonial fractionals from this period are among the more fragile survivors of the AOF emergency series.