French Somaliland CFA franc
French Somaliland CFA franc: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction uncertain; ended 1949
- Ancestry branch
- French franc
Its place in the family
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French Somaliland CFA franc
This currencyTrace its ancestry backward
French Somaliland CFA franc
French franc
Livre tournois
Frankish denier–livre
Roman solidus–nomisma
Roman as–denarius accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
The story
French Somaliland participates in the territorial CFA currency group. [1]
Resident bankaccounts and obligations were denominated in CFA before statutory conversion. [2]
The 1949 law converts resident CFA accounts and obligations into the newly established Djibouti franc. [3]
Sources and evidence
- French provisional government; reproduced by BCEAO · Decree of 25 December 1945, effective 26 December, in Histoire de l’Union monétaire ouest-africaine, tome I, Des origines à 1958 C1457 ↗
- French Republic; Djibouti Official Gazette · Décret49-376,1949 monetary reform C1458 ↗
- French Republic; Djibouti Official Gazette · Décret49-376,1949 monetary reform C1575 ↗
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“French Somaliland CFA franc.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/CUR-V27-SOMALIS-CFA.html