CFP franc
CFP franc: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- XPF
- Ancestry branch
- French franc
Its place in the family
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CFP franc
This currencyTrace its ancestry backward
CFP 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
The IEOM dates creation of the CFP franc to 1945. [1]
Initial Pacific/metropolitan parity. [2]
Turning points
Parity framework
The same decree separately establishes the Pacific-franc grouping. New Caledonia, French Oceania and New Hebrides; CFP is a sibling of CFA. [3]
Territorial currency separation
The Pacific franc separates from the metropolitan-franc monetary system in the same reform. [4]
Peg
Early CFP dollar parity. Exchange anchor, not US-dollar ancestry. [5]
Peg
CFP euro anchor. Keep this exact orientation; a rounded reciprocal is not the legal definition. [6]
Sources and evidence
- Institut d'émission d'outre-mer · Annual Report 2023 — Le Franc Pacifique C531 ↗
- Journal officiel, 26 December 1945 · Journal officiel, 26 December 1945 — Decree 45-0136 C746 ↗
- Journal officiel, 26 December 1945 · Journal officiel, 26 December 1945 — Decree 45-0136 C744 ↗
- Assemblée nationale / Hervé Gaymard · Rapport 2270, 27 January 2010: monetary history of the French Pacific C978 ↗
- IEOM · IEOM — Annual report 2020, CFP history C747 ↗
- IEOM · IEOM — Annual report 2020, CFP history C756 ↗
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“CFP franc.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000273.html