Central African Franc in Costa Rican Colon

XAF Central African Franc

Country of application:
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon

Coin denominations in circulation:
1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 100, 500 francs.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000 francs.

History reference:
The national official currency of Cameroon is the CFA franc BEAC, the franc of financial cooperation in Central Africa, or the Central African franc (international designation XAF). The Central Afric...an franc is the currency of thirteen African countries in the French franc currency area. The XAF has its origins in Frances African colonial empire. France ruled most of West and Central Africa from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. In 1910, the French government established the French Equatorial Africa, which was a federation of French colonial possessions in Equatorial Africa, stretching north from the Congo River to the Sahel.

CRC Costa Rican Colon

Country of application:
Costa Rica

Coin denominations in circulation:
10, 25, 50, 100 and 500 columns.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
1,000, 2,000, 5,000, 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 colones.

History reference:
The currency, named after Christopher Columbus or, in the Spanish manner, Cristobal Colon, came out with a content of 0.7002 grams of pure gold in October 1896. The colon replaced the Costa Rican pes...o and was parity with the US dollar at 2.15:1. The Costa Rican colón was adopted as the national currency in 1896, about 70 years after Costa Rica and its Central American neighbors declared independence from Spain. Colón replaced the Costa Rican peso with a one-to-one exchange rate. The former currency of the peso, a legacy of the colonial era, was divided into eight Spanish reais.