Djiboutian franc

Encyclopedia : D : DJ : DJI : Djiboutian franc

The Djiboutian franc is the official currency of the African nation of Djibouti. Its ISO 4217 currency code is DJF.

Contents

1 History
2 Coins
3 Banknotes
4 External links

History

Essentially the Franc is a continuation of the old French Franc prior to its revaluation in 1960, initially the Bank of Indo China issued banknotes in 1920 designed only for Djibouti with Djibouti written in French, Arabic and Afar. Coins were issued in 1948 under French Somaliland, from 1968 as French Afars and Issas and upon independence in 1977 as Djibouti.

Coins

Aluminium 1, 2 and 5 francs
Aluminium bronze 10 and 20 francs
Copper/Nickel 50 and 100 francs
Aluminium bronze 500 francs issued in 1989.

Banknotes

1000, 2000, 5000 and 10,000 francs

External links

Currencies of Africa
North	Algerian dinar > Euro (Plaza de soberanía) \| Egyptian pound \| Libyan dinar \| Mauritanian ouguiya \| Moroccan dirham \| Sudanese dinar \| Tunisian dinar
Central	Angolan kwanza > Burundian franc \| Central African CFA franc (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon) \| Congolese franc \| Rwandan franc
West	Cape Verdean escudo > Euro (Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira) \| Gambian dalasi \| Ghanaian cedi \| Guinean franc \| Liberian dollar \| Nigerian naira \| São Tomé and Príncipe dobra \| Sierra Leonean leone \| West African CFA franc (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo)
East	Comorian franc > Djiboutian franc \| Eritrean nakfa \| Ethiopian birr \| Kenyan shilling \| Seychelles rupee \| Somali shilling \| Somaliland shilling \| Tanzanian shilling \| Ugandan shilling
South	Botswana pula > Euro (Mayotte, Réunion) \| Lesotho loti \| Malawian kwacha \| Malagasy ariary \| Mauritian rupee \| Mozambican metical \| Namibian dollar \| Norwegian krone (Bouvet Island de jure) \| Saint Helena pound \| South African rand \| Swazi lilangeni \| Zambian kwacha \| Zimbabwean dollar
This box: [ view] • [ talk] • [ edit]

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.