CFA franc (BEAC)
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- XAF
- Ancestry branch
- French franc
Its place in the family
All ancestors and descendants ↗Parents 1
CFA franc
This currencyChildren 0
No successor is established here.
Trace its ancestry backward
CFA franc
French franc
Livre tournois
Frankish denier–livre
Roman solidus–nomisma
Roman as–denarius accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
The story
The BCAO traces both western and central CFA terminology to the framework created on December 26, 1945; this does not settle the later separate issuing zones' formation. [1]
Central CFA devaluation takes effect. Decision signed 11 January; publication on 24 March is not the effective date. [2]
Central CFA euro anchor. Equal parity does not merge XAF with XOF. [3]
Turning points
Territorial adoption
Equatorial Guinea adopts CFA currency. Contemporary notice specifies 2 January; preferred over the 1 January date in later Bundesbank metadata. [4]
Changing monetary anchors
Euro — converging national replacements · 1 January 1999 · euro anchor introduced
655.957 XAF per EUR. Terms and evidence ↗
Sources and evidence
- BCEAO · Histoire du Franc CFA
- Légifrance · Légifrance — BEAC parity decision signed 11 January 1994
- French Treasury · French Treasury — La Zone franc de 1939 à aujourd’hui
- Casimir Oye Mba, BEAC governor · Casimir Oye Mba, BEAC governor — Equatorial Guinea changeover notice, Le Monde, 28 December 1984
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“CFA franc (BEAC).” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-14; data version v49. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000264.html