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500fr denom (#6532) (Upper Volta usage only)

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  • Colnect-508-187-Abyssinian-Roller%C2%A0Coracias-abyssinica.jpg
  • Colnect-509-934-Jet-plane--quot-Caravelle-quot-.jpg
  • Colnect-520-833-10th-Anniversary-Of-Independency.jpg
  • Colnect-5112-868-General-Charles-de-Gaulle.jpg
  • Colnect-2134-968-Jimmy-Smith.jpg
  • Colnect-1227-480-Old-USA-stamps.jpg
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  • Colnect-5112-951-Lenin-and-Leonid-Brezhnev.jpg
Desc: 500fr

Currency: West African CFA franc (100c=1fr=1fcfa=1f)

Numerical sorting value: 3000000


Equivalent denoms used by Upper Volta: 500f (8)
Only used by others: 500fcfa (871)

Users of this denom: Benin (23 stamps, 1978-2011), Burkina Faso (36 stamps, 1985-2012), Dahomey (6 stamps, 1960-1975), Ivory Coast (64 stamps, 1959-2015), Mali Federation (1 stamp, 1960), Mali (86 stamps, 1960-2015), Mauritania (3 stamps, 1966-1970), Niger (151 stamps, 1959-2017), Senegal (54 stamps, 1960-2016), Upper Volta (13 stamps, 1961-1982) Show with all usages

Used by 13 stamps of Upper Volta: (See all uses as list)

airmail 3/4/1961 500fr issue=1961 air d=„Champs-Elysées“ Ouagadougou
airmail 3/1/1965 500fr dt=birds (1965 Upper Volta) d=Coracias abyssinica (1965)
airmail 2/29/1968 500fr d=Caravelle over airport
airmail 12/10/1970 500fr issue=10th Anniversary Of Independence
airmail 11/9/1971 500fr issue=1st Anniversary of the Death of Charles de Gaulle
5/17/1972 500fr dt=Jazz musicians (1972) (1972) d=Airmail - Jimmy Smith
2/17/1975 500fr issue=USA 200th a d=sheet
5/6/1975 500fr issue=USA 200th b d=sheet
9/22/1977 500fr issue=Nobel Prize Winners d=Albert Schweitzer (1977)
10/28/1977 500fr issue=50th Anniversary of October Revolution d=Lenin & Leonid Brezhnev
6/26/1980 500fr issue=Winter Olympics 1980
12/11/1980 500fr d=independence 20th
airmail 6/22/1982 500fr issue=World Cup 1982