Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Francs CFA Elephant
| Issuer | Burkina Faso |
|---|---|
| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Smooth |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | 2017 |
| Additional information |
Burkina Faso issues coinage through the Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, the regional central bank governing the eight-nation West African Economic and Monetary Union. The franc CFA itself was pegged to the French franc at a fixed rate from 1948 until 1994, when France devalued it by 50% in a single overnight decision — the most disruptive monetary event in francophone West Africa in the postwar period. Coins circulate across all BCEAO member states regardless of which country's name appears on the face.