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Ivory Coast West African States P-10 1000 francs s/n32662
Ivory Coast West African States P-10 1000 francs s/n32662
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- Front: Wooden mask of the Baule tribe (Ivory Coast), West African woman
- Back: West African man, carving from Benin
- Signatures: Mohamed Salem Ould M’khaitirat, Robert Julienne
- Mohamed Salem Ould M’khaitirat was a Mauritanian economic administrator active in the first decade after independence, working within the Ministry of Finance and in regional monetary governance during the period when Mauritania was still a full member of the West African Monetary Union. His career centered on fiscal management, inter-state coordination, and the early institutional development of Mauritania’s financial system. His signature appears on 1960s West African CFA franc (XOF) banknotes because Mauritania, before creating its own currency in 1973, was part of the BCEAO system. Each member state appointed a representative to the BCEAO Board of Directors, and that representative’s signature was paired with the Governor’s on circulating notes.
- Robert Julienne was Director of the BCEAO, responsible for the technical and operational execution of central-bank functions—currency issuance, bank supervision, and day-to-day management of the institution’s administrative machinery. Trained as a French treasury and colonial-finance specialist, he had worked in fiscal oversight and monetary administration in French West Africa before independence, giving him deep institutional memory as the BCEAO shifted to a multistate framework. Together, their signatures mark a moment when the BCEAO’s leadership blended post-colonial governance with experienced French monetary administrators to ensure continuity and stability during the transition.