Time Period: 1820-1920

Timeline

• 17.08.1825
• Authorization to import subsidiary coins of 10, 5 Cents of the general colonial series to the amount of 30'000 French Francs
• 15.06.1826
• French ordinance on the ban of pre-revolutionary and foreign coinage; effective immediately.
  - 16.08.1826: Ordinance, partly revoking the June ordinance, on the continued acceptance of foreign silver coins such as the Maria Theresia Thaler (which remained current until the 20th century); effective immediately.
• 21.12.1853
• French decree on the creation of the Bank of Senegal as colonial bank (after the model the general law on colonial banks of 23.12.1851) with issuance privilege for paper money (extended once until 1874); it opened for business in Dakar on 01.09.1855
  - The Bank of Senegal started banknote issuance in 1854.
• 24.06.1874
• Law on the reform of the charters of the French colonial banks renewing the 20 years' privilege for the issuance of colonal paper money; effective 11.09.1874 (extended regularly):
  - The bank was liquidated and taken over by the Bank of French West Africa on 25.02.1901.
• around 1920
• Issuance of tokens by the chambers of commerce of the cities of Dakar, Rufisque and Ziguinchor